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Recent Examples of moodiness
Teens are moody, but don’t take that moodiness personally.
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Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Finch put his finger on the trouble during one of the regular-season ruts, identifying a moodiness that gets in the way of the type of surgical execution of game plans that the defending champion Oklahoma City and now San Antonio can consistently lean on.
—CBS News, 16 May 2026
Burnout signs could show through moodiness, fatigue or simply wanting to disappear for a day.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
Symptoms of menopause include hot flashes, sleep issues, joint and muscle discomfort, night sweats, forgetfulness, moodiness, and irritability.
—Laura Schober, Health, 23 Apr. 2026
Part of the Nordic ESS Group collection of hotels, Rox meshes soothing Scandinavian minimalism with a welcome moodiness.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
This isn’t a role that requires dealing with chaos or moodiness — Russell Westbrook is no longer on the team, remember?
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2026
The movements feel rotoscoped and deliberate, and adds to the game’s moodiness.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
The darker color palette creates a sense of moodiness and relaxation, without feeling too stark.
—Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 20 Feb. 2026
Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Finch put his finger on the trouble during one of the regular-season ruts, identifying a moodiness that gets in the way of the type of surgical execution of game plans that the defending champion Oklahoma City and now San Antonio can consistently lean on.
—CBS News, 16 May 2026
Burnout signs could show through moodiness, fatigue or simply wanting to disappear for a day.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
Symptoms of menopause include hot flashes, sleep issues, joint and muscle discomfort, night sweats, forgetfulness, moodiness, and irritability.
—Laura Schober, Health, 23 Apr. 2026
Part of the Nordic ESS Group collection of hotels, Rox meshes soothing Scandinavian minimalism with a welcome moodiness.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
This isn’t a role that requires dealing with chaos or moodiness — Russell Westbrook is no longer on the team, remember?
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2026
The movements feel rotoscoped and deliberate, and adds to the game’s moodiness.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
The darker color palette creates a sense of moodiness and relaxation, without feeling too stark.
—Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 20 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moodiness
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These disturbances are designed to replicate the unpredictability and latency inherent in physical robot systems.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
18 May 2026
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For many owners, the challenge is not simply rising costs, but the speed and unpredictability with which those costs are changing.—
Alison Coleman,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Yet this book is written more in sorrow than in anger.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
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Late in the picture, a display of kindness from the elderly Catalan woman Lucila looks after introduces an unexpected reciprocity of care — even with those unfamiliar with her sorrows and the intricacies of her cultural background.—
Carlos Aguilar,
IndieWire,
13 May 2026
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That impulsiveness was on display last year when the president pushed the Texas state legislature to gerrymander its electoral maps before the midterms in the hope of maintaining Republican control of Congress.—
Jason Willick,
Washington Post,
26 Apr. 2026
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Malcolm's daughter is struggling in life and school, but her father's genetic toolkit only has belligerence, impulsiveness and thickheadedness, passed on by his on-screen parents.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
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In 1848, the landscape architect Andrew Jackson Downing observed that places like Green-Wood and Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston did a better job of alleviating stress than encouraging somberness.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
14 Apr. 2026
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There’s a crepuscular somberness, a feeling of looking back on the perfect day, knowing bliss won’t last forever.—
Kiana Mickles,
Pitchfork,
17 Feb. 2026
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Her capriciousness leads her into an affair with a frustrated professor, Mark (Michael Angarano), who compliments her writing and composes pretentious, backhandedly insulting poems about their not-quite-love.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
15 Apr. 2026
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Whether out of arrogance, capriciousness, or collective amnesia, this recent history was ignored.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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Advertisement For decades, the dominant story about Watts was one of pathology and hopelessness.—
Terry McDonell,
Time,
21 Apr. 2026
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The other featured a comeback that saw hopelessness turn into jubilation.—
Peter Warren,
Houston Chronicle,
28 Mar. 2026
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The film explores themes of power and coming of age in a corrupt society, with campus culture wars and climate grief at its center.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 May 2026
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There have been so many films about grief and people losing somebody.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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Annah’s resulting anguish is so uncomfortable for the others, that Ibrahim and Jacques practically come to blows.—
Alissa Simon,
Variety,
16 May 2026
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Yet masculinism also functions as a perpetual-motion machine of grievance, an inarticulate howl of anguish at the status quo—whatever that currently is.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Moodiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moodiness. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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