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broody

[broo-dee] / ˈbru di /




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The camera takes time to adore the young protagonists, to admire their excellent surfaces, to look them straight in their moody, broody, serious eyes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All podcast.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2025

Pregnant at 23, married not long after, she had endured 14 years of bossy, broody cantankerousness from a man to whom marriage was “a tourniquet I didn’t think we could live without.”

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022

Like, they think he’s moody and broody, but also brilliant.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2022

Frightful was too broody to notice what was going on below her, but not 426.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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