Full of or showing high-spirited merriment.
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Examples for "gay "
1 The gay marriage law in Washington state has not yet taken effect.
2 There's no way to mince words here; it's a pretty gay situation.
3 But gay rights in Cuba have taken great strides in recent years.
4 A good example, she says, is the party's opposition to gay marriage.
5 However, in the longer term, married gay couple may invest more together.
1 Europe without a way forward may reverse an overly merry first quarter.
2 So the swineherd departed; and the suitors made merry in the hall.
3 But the law of unintended consequences sometimes goes its own merry way.
4 The merry -makers stood around; the men looked serious and the ladies shivered.
5 No longer in the winter-time, but in the merry month of May.
1 Jean Orteig said that the staff was mourning in a jolly way.
2 In addition to all this, you did jolly well in the O.T.C.
3 It was an unconscious movement that seemed too jolly for the situation.
4 He felt jolly ; he thought it was fun to fool the Crow.
5 It is a bright little place, and very jolly in the season.
1 Hours later, the common room had a warm, jovial feel to it.
2 The abuse in the Dunciad is by comparison broad and even jovial .
3 Then an Hour or two in the Library with the jovial Macaulay.
4 It sets a marker for the service throughout: engaging, jovial and attentive.
5 The Royal Particular was pressed upon me, by the now jovial Donjalolo.
1 The others perked up their ears in mirthful appreciation of this language.
2 Hear the malediction with which Elisha cursed the insolent and mirthful children.
3 A mirthful spirit pervaded the room and the usual order was wanting.
4 The smile he summoned to his lips was more quizzical than mirthful .
5 Ida could scarcely disguise her pleasure, and with mirthful eyes she said:
1 As for my children, they, jocund in youth, delight in present existence.
2 His voice is the jocund and inspiring voice of a spring morning.
3 She did not flush or start, but regarded abstractedly the jocund Cupids.
4 On the contrary: the sun rose jocund , with a July face.
5 FAIR dawned, over the hills of Martair, the jocund morning of our hunt.
6 The bells of Bideford church cannot help breaking forth into a jocund peal.
7 The jocund Vicar, with his arm round Mrs. Gresley, proceeded to the drawing-room.
8 It was so young and gay; so jocund , and so hopeful.
9 The manager of the place, an amiable, jocund descendant of Lazarus, approached me.
10 As for the passengers in the cabin, who now so jocund as they?
11 How merry and jocund every life-gifted thing looks forth on this our festival.
12 Pericard's really nourishing soup, he became quite jocund in his glee.
13 He heard the jocund whistle of Dingwell as the cattleman came along the corridor.
14 When Mrs. Grantly returned she found him in jocund spirits.
15 A watchman stood on duty by the Sternthor, when the jocund peasant passed by.
16 The captain was five feet four inches in height, round, ruddy, mellow and jocund .
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