gleeful• The locals, apparently, looked with gleefulanticipation to the coming of city folks with fatwallets.• The park was full of gleeful children playing on sleds.• Payno was gleeful, for his idea was a good one.• A gleefulgrin crossed his face.• Sometimes she was gleeful over something she had just taught Lincoln to do.• When he struggled to find winners at the start of the season, the cries of gleefulrecriminationreached a crescendo.• The old woman's mouthtwisted into a smile of gleefulsatisfaction, and she turned to Theda.• She seemed almost gleeful when I told her Hope had been fired.