gleefully

Adverb

Meaning

in a joyous and gleeful manner

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Belatedly, Clary recalled something. "I thought you guys said onlyof the vampire bikes could fly?"... [Jace:]"Only some of them can!" "How did you know this was one of them?" "I didn't!" he shouted gleefully... Cassandra Clare

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. Mel Brooks

[After Peeping Tom] When they got me on my own [the critics] gleefully sawed off the limb and jumped up and down on the corpse. Michael Powell (director)

the old man had greeted her gleefully Source: Internet

A gleefully juvenile romp, this goofy, blood-thirsty, unabashedly juvenile feature directorial debut from visual effects artist Jason Lei Howden () is nutty, gory, and chalk full of awesome silliness. Source: Internet

As some protesters tried to put out the fire, others danced gleefully in front of it, snapping selfies. Source: Internet

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