Belonging to or characteristic of a Christian group whose worship is marked by enthusiastic participation.
（基督教一派别）礼拜形式热烈而随意的
he's one of the happy-clappy lot
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But then the fictional President Bartlett and the real Baroness Thatcher are made of sterner stuff than happy-clappy trendy vicars.
If they want a narrow church based on a fundamentalist interpretation of an outdated and largely forgotten book then they should remove themselves from our state church and join some happy-clappy cult where they will do less damage.
There is a whole subcontinent of them out there in India and they are shucking off the happy-clappy Hare Krishna image of the 60s.
An avid footballer and ballet fan, she has also inherited her mother's strong Methodist beliefs, and is known at university as a key happy-clappy player in God's earthly squad.
In fact, the agent of self-deception might itself be a social grouping, such as a happy-clappy religious cult.
Cheerful, meaningless, happy-clappy pop is absolutely fine (even if I find myself increasingly embarrassed that I have not the faintest idea what I'm listening to: ‘Oh, so this is Pink’).
Finally, as we were on our way to Mrs. Lefty's parents' house, we passed a hippy modern fundy church, filled with happy-clappy fundies on their big Saturday night out.
I know that Anglican vicars prefer to deal with these issues in a happy-clappy manner, but to see Islam, Judaism and the Catholics favouring it as well is entirely baffling.
Forget any notions of happy-clappy rock songs.
Their happy-clappy Beach Boys-inspired music is downright infectious, so go along a join the worshippers - you'll be converted.
Those are, basically, phrases that, in corporate parlance, mean ‘creating a happy-clappy office’.
Additional bit, having thought about it I should say also that if you're one of those freaks that likes a smiley happy-clappy ending to a film, then this is NOT a film for you.
If Vauxhall had fitted stripes and spoilers and exhaust pipes like dustbins, the end result would have been more daft than a happy-clappy vicar playing ZZ Top as he jogs round the parish in his Nike Air Stormers.
The local Anglican churches are under heavy pressure to go in for the happy-clappy bible thumping stuff which the Jensens see as the path to recovery for the Anglican church.
How many romantic misunderstandings and happy-clappy showstoppers must we endure before longing for the curtain to drop in front of those beaming, ambitious faces?
All right, I'm not one of them happy-clappy dippy-hippies who thinks world peace is just a state of mind.
Their smiling, happy-clappy welcome to all associated with the World Cup finals even looks a little naive to those of us who have arrived from world-weary quarters of the globe.
So let's not be conned by the happy-clappy housewives.
Contentedly you camp, singing happy-clappy Bob Dylan tunes around the fire before heading out next day at the crack of dawn.
If that happy-clappy view of divine justice is not repudiated, then the integrity of Catholic doctrine will become Hindley's final victim.
nounPlural happy-clappieshapiˈklapi
British informal
A member of a Christian group whose worship is marked by enthusiastic participation.
（基督教一派别）礼拜形式热烈而随意的
happy-clappies and traditionalists
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He's been a happy-clappy all his life. He accidentally sent me this email by mistake.
They would have to put up with the ‘happy-clappies’.
That's what comes from being gullible happy-clappies.
It's unsurprising that in a course on deviance, we might talk about deviant stuff and I don't accept that at a university, we should have to trim our sails so that the local happy-clappies are satisfied with our absence of moral turpitude.