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moodiness

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Moo·dy  (md), Dwight Lyman 1837-1899.
American evangelist who toured major American and British cities and founded several educational institutions.

Moody, Helen Wills
See Helen Newington Wills.

mood·y  (md)
adj. mood·i·er, mood·i·est
1. Given to frequent changes of mood; temperamental.
2. Subject to periods of depression; sulky.
3. Expressive of a mood, especially a sullen or gloomy mood: a moody silence.

moodi·ly adv.
moodi·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.moodiness - a sullen gloomy feeling
ill humor, ill humour, distemper - an angry and disagreeable mood
moroseness, sullenness, glumness - a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
2.moodiness - having temperamental and changeable moods
disposition, temperament - your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"
Translations
moodiness [ˈmuːdɪnɪs] N (= variability) → humor m variable; (= bad mood) → mal humor m
moodiness
nLaunenhaftigkeit f; (= bad mood)schlechte Laune; (of look, answer)Verdrossenheit f; his moodinesssein launisches Wesen
moodiness [ˈmuːdɪnɪs] n (changeability) → volubilità f inv; (sulkiness) → malumore m
moodiness [ˈmuːdɪnɪs] n (changeability) → volubilità f inv; (sulkiness) → malumore m


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"You know very well how to go about business matters," he used to say, with a sort of affected moodiness clouding his serene round face.
Will Ladislaw's smile was delightful, unless you were angry with him beforehand: it was a gush of inward light illuminating the transparent skin as well as the eyes, and playing about every curve and line as if some Ariel were touching them with a new charm, and banishing forever the traces of moodiness.
The moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind; while, from the sudden, frequent, and ungovernable outbursts of a fury to which I now blindly abandoned myself, my uncomplaining wife, alas
 
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