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gratified

[ US /ˈɡɹætəˌfaɪd/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈætɪfˌa‍ɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having received what was desired

How To Use gratified In A Sentence

  • Although the zebra long since retired to that savannah in the sky, and his owner herself is more than 30 years gone, the eccentric Winmill might be gratified to know that her phaetons and surreys, curricles and landaulets still command attention.
  • John was gratified to see the improvement in his mother's health since she had come home.
  • But if he thought the gloss had been taken off his status as a global celebrity he might have been gratified to learn that after his death the procession that followed his funeral bier was more than half a mile long.
  • You would be gratified to learn that it hurts like hell and is the size of a volleyball.
  • He was plainly gratified to see that his audience was spellbound. Times, Sunday Times
  • First of all, I'm gratified to note that we largely agree.
  • The stumps were pitched, the look-outs appointed, and the Captain gratified by the first innings.
  • Expanded, visually, beyond anything resembling the comparatively claustrophobic 1947 film which starred a wonderfully scrofulous Richard Attenborough, and imbued with a feverish morality that would have gratified Mr. Greene himself, the film is almost distractingly beautiful to look at, something that accentuates the tension between the film's conflicting quantities, i.e., the glories of the physical world, and the corrupted humanity it hosts. 'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart
  • He was greatly gratified by the seven turnovers the kids had, which is only one more than their franchise low.
  • Pressing a cylindrical disc of some base metal into the gratified waiter's hand, McCrimmon emerged into the vestibule. THE LONELY SEA
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