Glee

Definitions

1. Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
   uncountable
2. Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
   uncountable
3. An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
   countable

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Examples

“I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they made.”

“Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score⟳ and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run⟳, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.”

“Sometimes they had glees, when Captain Strong’s chest was of vast service, and he boomed out in a prodigious bass, of which he was not a little proud.”

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