gleefully

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
20
Letters
9

Definition of gleefully

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. With glee; joyfully
    “Al Habsi, so outstanding at Arsenal on Saturday, somehow scrambled the ball off the line, but only as far as Agbonlahor, who gleefully nodded home his first Premier League goal since last April.”
    “Of course, the game that was ruining workplace productivity and infrastructure wasn’t innocent Tetris or the nationalistic Wolfenstein 3D—it was a game in which an ultraviolent marine gleefully murdered demons on a satanic Mars.”
    “After refusing to sit down, [Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas] was escorted out of the House chamber, as some Republican lawmakers gleefully chanted “sha-nah-nah-nah, hey hey hey, goodbye.””

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Etymology

From gleeful + -ly.

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