1
: exultant high-spirited joy : merriment
dancing with glee
2
: a part-song for usually male voices
Examples of glee in a Sentence
They were dancing with glee.
He could hardly contain his glee over his victory.
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Callum Booth, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Another way of positioning this reaction is as an example of schadenfreude, a term used to explain taking glee in someone’s suffering—and that’s a key reason to explaining why some people are reacting to the stock market dip in this way.
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Indeed, recent developments have indicated that they might be deployed with genuine glee.
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Somewhere Carolyn is kicking her feet in glee right now.
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Callum Booth, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Another way of positioning this reaction is as an example of schadenfreude, a term used to explain taking glee in someone’s suffering—and that’s a key reason to explaining why some people are reacting to the stock market dip in this way.
—Callum Booth, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Indeed, recent developments have indicated that they might be deployed with genuine glee.
—Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Somewhere Carolyn is kicking her feet in glee right now.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Glee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glee. Accessed 22 Apr. 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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