glee
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4.4
- noun
- /ɡliː/
:
regodeo
- She watched with glee as her rival tripped and fell during the race.
- took glee
And yeah, well, we might get a little bit of Glee when that cheating X gets theirs.
- And yeah, well, we might get a little bit of Glee when that cheating X gets theirs.
- Their ends fill me with retributive Glee or break my heart.
- There was a senator, I, I think it was after the pancreatic cancer, who announced with great Glee that I was going to be dead within six months.
- Now to say here, me Lords, go away, journalists Guardian, BuzzFeed, stop rubbing your hands with Glee.
- Because the premise of catfishing is that you are trying to draw someone in and I guess get the sadistic Glee of playing them.
- And the, the the kind of disturbing Glee with which that National Enquirer, right, the guy with the bow tie, oh, my gosh, how such a cartoon.
- This isn't just roll up, but it it seems to be in a lot of the meninism slash red pill space that the guys, they really take Glee in shitting on women.
Examples
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There's a wild-eyed look of glee on his face as he stuffs sacks full of money.
Fiction book (1994) -
Isobel smiled in unholy glee, which was truly a painful thing to watch.
Fiction book (1991) -
I will admit to some glee in telling him how very not special he was.
Blog text (19) -
Their ends fill me with retributive Glee or break my heart.
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Her voice rang with the glee that stems from the troubles of others.
Fiction book (1993) -
Ivan seems to be taking a perverse glee in all this.
Fiction book (1995) -
"A look of predatory glee spread over Slim's face."
Fiction book (1996) -
"He's left you a widow already?" The glee in his tone was disgraceful.
Fiction book (1991) -
Slinking out of the bedroom, she felt a mixture of poisonous glee and calm fury.
Fiction book (1995) -
There's such diabolical glee in it; it even takes Dodge aback.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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1.0
A feeling of enjoyment or happiness from something
970
1.0
A feeling of pleasure and being satisfied
793
1.0
A strong feeling of great happiness
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1.0
The feeling of pleasure you get from something
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1.2
A feeling of pleasure when something makes you laugh
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6.1
Great happiness that people show by laughing
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3.4
A time of happy laughter and fun at a party or celebration
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1.0
A feeling of being happy and pleased
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9.9
A feeling of happiness when someone else has bad luck or fails
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4.1
Strong, excited enjoyment of something you like
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7.7
A feeling of pleasure at someone else's bad luck
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2.0
A strong feeling of happiness and excitement
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3.0
A strong feeling of great happiness
A strong feeling of happy excitement that makes you smile
A feeling of great happiness and pleasure
A warm feeling of happiness and pleasure inside you
A very large amount of happiness
A feeling of joyful laughter that spreads to others
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Etymology
Glee still carries its old sense of 'joy' from glēo, but it is also used for a pleased, often mean kind of joy when someone else has trouble. So glee can mean joy with a touch of malice, the small happiness you feel at another person's mistake.