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UK
/dʒˈɔɪfəli/
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[ US /ˈdʒɔɪfəɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒɔɪfəɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a joyous and gleeful manner
the old man had greeted her gleefully
How To Use joyfully In A Sentence
- Finally, the bell rings and kids burst joyfully out the door.
- Paris, where he requested the Priests there abiding, to bestow baptisme on Abraham, which they joyfully did, hearing him so earnestly to desire it. The Decameron
- After this welcome, Granganameo made them a long set speech, to which Captain Amadas replied by presenting him with divers things, which he joyfully received; and during the whole ceremony none of the company of attendants spoke a word audibly, but each in the other's ear very softly. North Carolina and its Resources.
- His spirit is cheerful throughout all of this: ‘I delight to do thy will, O God, ‘he cries joyfully, not as some obsequious lickspittle.’
- Perfect families smiling joyfully in front of roaring log fires? The Sun
- He pronounced her name joyfully, and moved forward to greet her; but as their hands met she understood that he did not mean to press his company upon her. The Fruit of the Tree
- The woods echoed to the sound of wolf cubs playing joyfully in the sunshine. Times, Sunday Times
- She swung herself easily from hold to hold, her lithe body moving almost joyfully up the rock.
- She saw the local women in their flowered overalls and carpet slippers, heavy wedding rings sunk into their bulbous toil-scarred fingers, their eyes bright in amorphous faces, as they sat gossiping beside their prams of second-hand clothes; the young people, joyfully garbed, squatting on the kerbstone behind their stalls of bric-a-brac; the tourists cheerfully impulsive or cautious and discerning by turns, conferring over their dollars or displaying their bizarre treasures. She Closed Her Eyes
- Minutes later, we're leaping joyfully across a bay of sparkling wavelets towards a headland crowned with the ruins of a pirate castle.