Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being cheery; cheerfulness; gaiety and good humor: as, his cheeriness was constant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being cheery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
cheery
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Examples
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Another relic of Disney live action musical cheeriness from the ’60s.
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Another relic of Disney live action musical cheeriness from the ’60s.
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The influence of the dear old scenes was something, and his cheeriness was a great deal more; the peaceful present was not harassed or disturbed, and the foreboding, on which she might not dwell, made it the more precious.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Summer makes me incredibly sad, I just hate the heat and the 'cheeriness' of it all.
Pour lolita Goth Hello Kitty and the winter in me. Elizabeth McClung 2008
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She saw little of Dan in those days, and thought less; but when they met, she was, as usual, gentle and tolerant, patiently enduring his "cheeriness," and entering into no quarrel unless he forced one upon her.
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand
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They went to their places with that spirit of stolid cheeriness which is the wonder and admiration of every one who knows Tommy Atkins intimately.
Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army James Norman Hall 1919
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Indeed, he had a kind of cheeriness which seems to belong to doctors, which did much to comfort me and steady me for what was to come.
Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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A voice that pummeled with cheeriness elbowed me out of my thoughts.
It Wasn't Me. Chris Braiotta 2011
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The Priory staff was friendly and helpful but had the slightly forced cheeriness I had often noticed in people looking after the sick.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Which is exactly how I would have put it, happy as I was to discover these books, too, after so many years of unrelenting cheeriness and pointless plot-iness and overweening cutesiness and, as Phoebe suggests, way too much sugar.
Jenny Rosenstrach: Daniel Handler's Summer Reading List Jenny Rosenstrach 2011
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