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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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
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Bates did not even trouble to reply, but went on moodily rolling
Chapter 1 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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I turned away on my heel and fell moodily to contemplating the mountain of luggage.
CHAPTER I 2010
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