mope

The alternative is to mope and boo and there's no future in that.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

It was frustrating to watch Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda mope around the first two seasons, trying to find their place in a world that changed too fast for them to keep up.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2025

Fortunately, Sennott is entertaining even as a mope.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024

According to the director, Roberts proceeded to mope through the casting process, which included readings with the likes of Russell Crowe, Ralph Fiennes, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

Now Rhonda would move on to experience those special opportunities, while Reynie would mope his way back to the orphanage, defeated.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

He usually follows me around the house, and he mopes when I’m gone.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2022

“Maddie doesn’t listen to me,” she complains, then mopes.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2021

While David mopes around, wallowing in his angst, Georgia is a model of multitasking, caring for the kids, finishing a novel and, at one point, helping a friend give birth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2020

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

He complains he’s getting out of shape, but then just mopes around the house and watches Star Wars for the bazillionth time.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

Simson's moped division puttered on after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall but eventually went bust in 2002.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

A ballroom dancer who coddles his pet rats—Fred and Ginger—Declan rides a moped that his colleague, Sara Xiu, describes as “that pitiful hair-dryer on wheels.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

In some cities this week there were long queues of moped riders at petrol stations panic-buying fuel.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

They could have looked around and moped that three architects of their success this season weren't there to help them now.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

I moped the rest of the way home, which wasn’t too far.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

He doesn’t respond to his various wake-up calls with stubborn defiance but a curiosity that shifts his moping into something akin to a geeky, fun-loving second adolescence.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026

Instead of moping over the setback, Ohtani has started eyeing his next boundary-pushing maneuver: To be a leadoff hitter and high-leverage reliever in the same game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025

As macho as the protagonist of a Lifetime movie, moping like an adolescent and watching too much TV, Mr. White’s Springsteen is clearly depressed, but Mr. Cooper’s script doesn’t provide much illumination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

"My whole life turned upside down, and I spent ages moping and just sitting around," said the 34-year-old.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025

Mrs. Baylor must have noticed me moping around the house over the next few days because she pulled me aside and said, “You didn't get that part you was counting on, did you?”

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English