Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy.

showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.

subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer"

large town and capitol on west cost of INA, east of Prime's Vancouver

United States evangelist (1837-1899)

talking about a hand, most likely in a deliberately misleading way, before all players have finished betting. Often frowned upon, or banned, in British card rooms but usually common practice in the United States

a senior Employee Relations Specialist in the Employee Relations Division of the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Office of Labor and Employee Relations

United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906)