MOODILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moodily mean? 

• MOODILY (adverb)
  The adverb MOODILY has 1 sense:

1. in a moody manner

  Familiarity information: MOODILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOODILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a moody manner

Context example:

in the bar, a youngish, sharp-eyed man was staring moodily into a gin and tonic

Pertainym:

moody (showing a brooding ill humor)

 Context examples 

“He shall have four silver candlesticks,” said the seneschal moodily.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Well, I suppose I must fill his place as best I can,” said my uncle, moodily.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He stood moodily rattling the money, and shaking his head, until at length he said: Is this all you mean to give me, then?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was silent, unsympathetic, and he watched her moodily, realizing how impossible it was for her to understand what he had been through.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

'I will like it,' said I; 'I dare like it;' and (he subjoined moodily) I will keep my word; I will break obstacles to happiness, to goodness—yes, goodness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the other was deep in one of Clark Russell’s fine sea-stories until the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the sea waves.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The English knight shook his head moodily.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It would be better to be this poor Peggotty, or his lout of a nephew, he said, getting up and leaning moodily against the chimney-piece, with his face towards the fire, than to be myself, twenty times richer and twenty times wiser, and be the torment to myself that I have been, in this Devil's bark of a boat, within the last half-hour!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“It is over,” said Du Guesclin moodily, as he raised her drooping head with his strong brown hand.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Moodily and in silence the little party rode along the narrow and irregular track, their hearts weighed down by this far-stretching land of despair.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)