gleefully

English

Etymology

From gleeful +‎ -ly.

Adverb

gleefully (comparative more gleefully, superlative most gleefully)

  1. With glee; joyfully
    • 2011 January 25, Les Roopanarine, “Wigan 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC‎[1]:
      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.
    • 2021 October 29, Trevor Strunk, “How To Get Away With Making An Ultraviolent Video Game”, in Defector‎[2]:
      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.
    • 2025 March 5, Cameron Joseph, “After wild six weeks, Trump tells Congress ‘We are just getting started’”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
      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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