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broody

[broo-dee] / ˈbru di /




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Lucifer seemed likely to trounce broody hero Dream initially — until he asked, “What kills hope?”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023

The pink-hued Warner Bros. movie was pitted against Christopher Nolan’s broody “Oppenheimer” in the cinematic standoff now known as “Barbenheimer.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023

Every sneaker-staring, guitar-hugging kid with a broody set of love songs who wants to stand up and play, drifts into this city.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2023

When British boy band One Direction, assembled on British talent show “The X Factor” in 2010, disassembled in early 2016, many assumed that beautiful, broody Zayn Malik would be the group’s breakout star.

From Washington Post • May 23, 2022

Frightful was too broody to notice what was going on below her, but not 426.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George