gleefully

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English gleeful Middle English -ly English -ly English gleefully From gleeful + -ly.

1. With glee; joyfully

   “Al Habsi, so outstanding at Arsenal on Saturday, somehow scrambled the ball off the line, but only as far as Agbonlahor, who gleefully nodded home his first Premier League goal since last April.”

   “Of course, the game that was ruining workplace productivity and infrastructure wasn’t innocent Tetris or the nationalistic Wolfenstein 3D—it was a game in which an ultraviolent marine gleefully murdered demons on a satanic Mars.”