gleeful

Etymology

From glee + -ful.

adj

1. Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful.
   During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause. 2019-7-24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents