moodiness

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Noun
  • Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett also condemned the shooting and expressed his sorrow for the parents of the victims.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2025
  • We are filled with unbearable sorrow and despair at our loss.
    Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • After the trial and sentencings, a noose of grief tightened around the DuFresne family.
    Mary Jane Gibson, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2025
  • Losing a job, or facing creative rejection, is a very real type of grief that doesn’t always get depicted as grief.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • To date, Operation UNITED has resulted in 33 positive identifications of people whose disappearance had left family members in anguish.
    Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 16 June 2025
  • Even so, the movie’s forceful visual shocks (executed mostly with practical effects) are easier to bear than its restlessly mounting anguish.
    Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • So many of the adults who held our communities together have been lost to mass incarceration, to addictions—diseases of despair—as drugs have replaced jobs and hope in our neighborhoods, often turning them into war zones.
    Asha Bandele, Essence, 25 June 2025
  • The best dystopian films are the most plausible ones, and Children Of Men feels all too real, from the political factions to the way humanity both descends into despair and miraculously comes together to help those who need it most.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • Remove every trace of desperation from your online presence.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Out of desperation, Red Bull chose to swap Liam Lawson and Tsunoda following two underwhelming races by Lawson.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Filatov declared Wednesday to be an official day of mourning.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 June 2025
  • Muharram, a sacred month of mourning for Shia Muslims, is believed to be around the corner.
    Chelsea Chan, NBC news, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • The ennui becomes more significant and apparent when viewers learn that Tina was a child prodicy musician.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 4 June 2025
  • There’s nothing peaceful about this mental stillness; as the day lengthens, so does the ennui.
    Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Buildings continue to fall into economic distress because of government’s housing policies.
    Alva Badillo, New York Daily News, 29 June 2025
  • In line with these ideas, researchers published findings in 2023 that showed that meditation increased people’s concern for the suffering of others—and that, by comparison, people without this practice were more oriented to their own distress.
    Mariah G. Schug, Scientific American, 27 June 2025
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“Moodiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moodiness. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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