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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Some Yankees were upset during the offseason, feeling the Dodgers took too much glee and rubbed it in about the Yankees’ metdown in the fifth inning of Game 5.
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Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
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Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
Fines and any restriction or suspension of the driver’s license aren’t going to be met with glee by the driver, either.
—Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 30 May 2025
The essay, which appeared in the literary magazine n+1, was the second most read piece in the publication’s history, and was widely discussed with both glee and horror.
—S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 2 May 2025
Porsche expressed some extra glee at setting the manual-transmission record, and said manual transmission sales for the 911 GT3 are up, too.
—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 17 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for glee
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“Glee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glee. Accessed 9 Jun. 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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