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Moodily

Moodily \Mood"i*ly\ (m[=oo]d"[i^]*l[y^]), adv. In a moody manner.

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moodily

adv. In a '''moody''' manner.

WordNet
moodily

adv. in a moody manner; "in the bar, a youngish, sharp-eyed man was staring moodily into a gin and tonic"

Usage examples of "moodily".

And he scrapes his griddle with the spatula and looks moodily at the stew kettle.

He was about to dig in when he noticed Jacoby still looking off moodily.

I left it unopened on the table while I nibbled at a chicken tikka sandwich and stared moodily through the glass at the drizzle spattering the windscreens of the saloons on the forecourt.

Prehistoric Earth, when Arthur found himself sitting on a hillside watching the moon rise over the softly burning trees in company with a beautiful young girl called Mella, recently escaped from a lifetime of staring every morning at a hundred nearly identical photographs of moodily lit tubes of toothpaste in the art department of an advertising agency on the planet Golgafrincham.

Gwalchmai and the Lorrainer arrived, to find De Rais moodily staring at the latest scroll, it was the evening of the twenty-fourth of May.

Having made one or two tentative remarks to the nearest miner, and receiving only short, gruff replies, the traveller resigned himself to uncongenial silence, staring moodily out of the window at the fading landscape.

As he charted his course to Thron, he remembered something and turned to Asquiol sitting moodily in the gunnery seat, staring at his instruments.

They had tea in silence, and smoked moodily apart until Brummy turned in.

The new idea, whatever it was, was evidently not one to be hastily perfected, for the next morning when Celestina went down stairs, she found the jaded inventor seated moodily in a rocking-chair before the kitchen stove, his head in his hands.

Late that night with the moon riding the sky, Gerrard stood in the balcony doorway of his bedroom staring moodily out at the silvered gardens, and considered where fate had led him.

He scooped up a handful of the micalike grains, and stared moodily at it as it trickled from between his fingers.

My father was moodily auditioning strippers in the purple-draped crypt of the old saloon.

It was surely Carrots sitting on one of the benches, his eyes gazing moodily across the greensward to the street beyond.

An ominous black shadow in the leaping firelight, the big man crouched enswathed in his cloak and moodily sipped wine from a crockery mug lost in his huge fist.

She fell silent again, and sat moodily running the lightspeed comm bands for another half-hour without result.