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moody

 adjective
     
mood‧y
1 annoyed or unhappy:
Keith had seemed moody all morning.
2 often changing quickly from being in a good temper to being in a bad temper [= temperamental]:
a moody teenager
Lewis was moody and brilliantly clever.
3 moody places, films, pictures, and music make you feel slightly sad, lonely, or perhaps frightened:
the moody grey sea in the dawn light
—moodily adverb:
She was staring moodily into the fire.
—moodiness noun [uncountable]
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