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Moodiness

noun
1.
A sullen gloomy feeling.
2.
Having temperamental and changeable moods.






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"Moodiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Edith thought to herself that Johnny was a lamb! "But, compared to Maurice, he's awfully uninteresting." Edith, openly and audibly, compared every male creature to Maurice, and none of them ever measured up to him! His very moodiness had its charm; when he sat down at the piano after dinner and scowled over some new music, or when he lounged in his big chair and smoked, his face absorbed to the point of sternness, Edith, loving ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

... the young man's own assent had been given. She did not see much of him—certainly not enough to fall in love with him. She even thought him a strange, moody youth; but yet there was something in his moodiness and eccentricity which excited her fancy. The reader knows that he chose for himself; and the lady ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 • Various

... and warm—and comprised, besides, so many ladies, whose badinage and gaiety he could never forego—that I found him insensibly drawn from me. Far from being displeased, I was glad to see him forget the moodiness which had of late oppressed him; and beyond keeping within sight of him, gave up, for the time, all thought of affairs, and found in the beauty of the spectacle sufficient compensation. The bright dresses and waving feathers of the party showed to ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman



Words linked to "Moodiness" :   ill humor, temperament, glumness, disposition, sullenness, moroseness, ill humour, distemper, moody



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