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moodily

[ UK /mˈuːdɪli/ ]
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  1. in a moody manner
    in the bar, a youngish, sharp-eyed man was staring moodily into a gin and tonic

How To Use moodily In A Sentence

  • She found him sitting in the lounge, staring moodily off into space.
  • At the head of the table sits a brooding Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, moodily attacking a chicken dish.
  • ‘Zheng’ begins with the looped rhythm of crackle, the needle loudly gouging into the vinyl surface, while a pipa moodily strums and plucked tones count time metronomically.
  • Buried under a layer of quilts he alternated between moodily staring at the paper, morosely changing channels, or just being a great big ill-tempered miserable lump.
  • “lambskinnet,” played moodily, their mouths glued to their pipe-stems; they were tail-on-end to fling down the cards for pick and shovel. Australia Felix
  • I moodily chomped on my buttered toast and took sips of my orange juice.
  • I do my best to look like a roguish flâneur, staring moodily at the passers-by. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • With moodily indifferent interest Elliott scarcely more than glanced up at the horseman's approach across the open plot of raw earth, hard-packed to a cement-like surface by the endless passage and repassage of countless hob-nailed, heavy-booted feet, but with that first glance his forehead began to smooth a little. Then I'll Come Back to You
  • On the little porch sat a big man with grizzled whiskers, smoking a brier-wood pipe, his beamlike legs crossed and his arms folded as he moodily watched the launch. The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters
  • Moodily, she scuffed the toe of her boot against the deck rail.
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