Definition of gleeful | Bee Dictionary of English

The story lit a fire under immigration groups who sent out gleeful e-mails.
High above the winter resort of Garmisch Partenkirchen, in the lee of Germany's towering Zugspitze, champion bobsledders of eight nations were in gleeful spirits last week.
But her signature is her gleeful willingness to taunt liberals and Democrats, to say out loud what some other conservatives dare only thinkthat Bill Clinton is a "horny hick .

Soldier Surprises Kids During Their ‘Welcome Home’ Practice
Being reunited with a loved one, particularly after that loved one has been deployed overseas, can be very emotional for all involved. Reunions with soldiers and their children are the kinds of scenes that make you want to grab a box of tissues and prepare for the gleeful encounter. Some families come up with ways [...]
June 10, 2013 - Trending Now via Yahoo! News
Obama NSA spy program mocked on Tumblr
To the delight of White House detractors everywhere, a soon-to-be-viral single-topic Tumblr was launched on Saturday mocking President Barack Obama's involvement in the National Security Agency's controversial spying program. The photo-driven blog, obamaischeckingyouremail.tumblr.com, showcases out-of-context press images of an often gleeful Obama—taken from Flickr, the web and elsewhere—looking ...
June 10, 2013 - The Ticket via Yahoo! News
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Vancouver seems like a recreational paradise, but maybe not. A gleeful parachutist is snatched by a pterodactyl; two cyclists zoom straight into a dinosaur. And that's in the first few minutes.
June 8, 2013 - Port Clinton News Herald

Rob Enderle in Channel News Asia
There's a tone of gleeful relish in the way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries, their appetite for withholding information, and the hints that reporters who look too hard into the public's business risk being branded... Bill Keller http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Keller&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFj_Jp8Tw3ZWJurSbGcvoIUZ4V3ig Boston Globe (registration) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/03/05/white_house_targets_media_sources_in_leak_crackdown&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHYsCn4yDaVaMOXV77Me2MYopCp-Q Mar 5, 2006 42277 58085 gleeful You can be gleeful about the last quarter but there are substantial dark clouds on the horizon for Apple," warned analyst Rob Enderle at Enderle Group in Silicon Valley.
Bernard Sanders in Boston Globe (registration)
Now is not the time to do something that the Republican Party will be very gleeful about,Sanders said.