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• a  being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits
  her cheerful nature
  a cheerful greeting
  a cheerful room
  as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be
• s  pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic

• Businessmen might be pessimistic about the future, but Wall Street took a cheerful view.
• And then there was Justin, as in Justin Guarini, her fellow finalist, who was so ridiculously good-natured that even perennially cheerful Katie Couric seemed befuddled by him; she .
• The notion of Walt Disney as a less than cheerful soul will ring disturbingly in the minds of older Americans taught by years of relentless publicity to think of Disney as "a quiet .

• pollyannaish
• upbeat

• depressing

News & Articles

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• Auto dealers drive May retail sales up past expectations
  Retail sales improved in May as thawing temperatures and more cheerful shoppers caused a boost at car dealerships and home improvement stores, according to government figures.        
  June 13, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• 23rd Annual A Most Excellent Race to benefit the Achievement Centers' Camp Cheerful
  HIGHLAND HILLS, Ohio, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 23rd Annual A Most Excellent Race, presented by Majestic Steel USA and benefiting the Achievement Centers for Children's Camp Cheerful, will take place on Sunday, June 23, 2013 at Beaumont School in Cleveland Heights. Offering a scenic, shaded course which progresses through a historic Cleveland Heights neighborhood, A Most ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News
• Study: Cheerful Women Least Likely to be Promoted
  Overly cheerful women are less likely to be promoted. That's according to a new study out of Germany.
  June 7, 2013 - WTVY Dothan

Quotes

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• Vice President Dick Cheney in Kansas City Star
  Few have ever risen so high with so little guile or calculation,Cheney said. "The distance of time has clarified many things about President Gerald Ford. He was not just a cheerful and pleasant man. . . he was not just a nice guy. . . It...
• David Cameron in Cay Compass
  There aren't many reasons to be cheerful, but there are reasons to believe,Cameron said, attempting an optimistic note amid a largely sober address. "It will be a steep climb - but the view from the summit will be worth it."
• Mike Pence in FOXNews
  It's going to be a cheerful opposition,said Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind. "We're going to carry those timeless principles of limited government, a strong defense, traditional values, to the American people."