1
: exultant high-spirited joy : merriment
dancing with glee
2
: a part-song for usually male voices
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Examples of glee in a Sentence
They were dancing with glee.
He could hardly contain his glee over his victory.
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Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2025
Sure, there had been shows that broke the fourth wall, but none did so with quite the same conspiratorial panache as Phoebe Waller-Bridge, delivering her straight-to-camera confessions with winking glee and singular wit.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
When presented with the brown spirit, Marcus rubbed his hands with glee.
—Hazlitt, 9 Dec. 2024
American scientists crowed with glee over evidence that America was as old as Europe.
—Caroline Winterer / Made By History, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Glee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glee. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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glee
noun1
: high-spirited joy
2
: an unaccompanied song for three or more voices
gleeful
adjective
-fəl
gleefully
adverb
-fə-lē
gleefulness
noun
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