Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a moody manner; peevishly; sullenly; sadly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a moody manner.

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  • adverb In a moody manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a moody manner

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Examples

  • Bates did not even trouble to reply, but went on moodily rolling

    Chapter 1 2010

  • Taking pictures of each other with your iPhones instead of nodding moodily to the techno, not balking at paying €3 (£2.60) for a bottle of Beck's, airily handing over €10 (£8.80) to get into a club on a week night – "because it's still cheaper than London nightclub Fabric, right?"

    Without tourists, Berlin is stuffed. But try telling that to the angry natives | Helen Pidd 2011

  • The event took place in a moodily lit subterranean auditorium that pulsed with the kind of understated techno music one associates with designer vodkas and business-class air travel.

    Inside Man 2010

  • She was silent, unsympathetic, and he watched her moodily, realizing how impossible it was for her to understand what he had been through.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • The event took place in a moodily lit subterranean auditorium that pulsed with the kind of understated techno music one associates with designer vodkas and business-class air travel.

    Inside Man 2010

  • "If you look at the songs, I don't believe you're going to find anything in there that says I'm a spokesman for anybody or anything really"—except, possibly, for Victoria's Secret, in whose TV ad Mr. Dylan had appeared a short time before, staring moodily into the camera while his song "Love Sick" played in the background.

    Poet, Prophet and Puzzle David Yezzi 2011

  • The event took place in a moodily lit subterranean auditorium that pulsed with the kind of understated techno music one associates with designer vodkas and business-class air travel.

    Inside Man 2010

  • The event took place in a moodily lit subterranean auditorium that pulsed with the kind of understated techno music one associates with designer vodkas and business-class air travel.

    Inside Man 2010

  • You see this right from the start when Spacey sits moodily slumped in a chair watching newsreel footage of his brother's regal triumph.

    Richard III – review 2011

  • I turned away on my heel and fell moodily to contemplating the mountain of luggage.

    CHAPTER I 2010

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