broody
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"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All podcast.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2025
The “La La Land” and “The Notebook” star, who is a noted musician as well, then took a seat behind a large black piano and donned dark sunglasses for the broody satire.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2024
Stewart’s non-gender-conforming streak started to surface in her portrayal of broody heroine Bella Swan in the “Twilight” saga, which the actor said in a January interview with Variety had a “very Gothic, gay inclination.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024
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
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