mopes
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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“Maddie doesn’t listen to me,” she complains, then mopes.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2021
It seems cruel to send her off to live her final years with my in-laws because she gets sad and mopes when we’re not around.
From Slate • Jan. 24, 2020
Foy’s favorite episode focuses on John and Jackie Kennedy visiting Buckingham Palace in 1961, contrasting the youth of the Kennedys with the royals’ middle-aged mopes, one couple embodying a new hope, the other a stagnation.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2017
At its weakest, though, Ford’s prose mopes with at-hand utterances: “part and parcel,” “pride and joy,” “this and that.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2017
Dad has started going to work again, but Mom mopes around the house.
From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea
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