mope
verb (used without object)
to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
mopingly
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a word derived from
mope.
Example Sentences
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He got into a cab and drove to his club, where he lunched, and mopingly spent a great part of the afternoon in making calculations for the foundations of the castle works.
From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Thomas Hardy
Instead, he was pacing to and fro mopingly.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
