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moodiness





NOUN
sullenness
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Rather than trying to brighten the room, he leaned into the moodiness by buying inexpensive, USB battery-powered spotlights that are mounted on the ceiling with magnets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

"When he was on social media, he was more social … more talkative with us," Mau says, though, she adds, his moodiness may also simply be the "teenage years".

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

Yet “Venetian Vespers,” for all its moodiness, is elegantly compressed—the central drama occupies only a few days—and the conspiracy at its core is convincingly tawdry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Skidmore, 25, had a group of friends as a teenager that accepted his moodiness, but he could never get close to anyone.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025

We didn’t have much time to hang out these days, not with the ferocious pace I’d set and the breadth of my self-assigned duties: moodiness, anxiety for the safety of every person, insomnia...

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline




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