mope

He’s since apologized, saying, “I do town halls all around the world, and as you know, I mope sometimes.”

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2025

"I'm still not sure I've worked out the answer to that, but I'm certainly not going to mope around."

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2025

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

Ellie may or may not be the savior of humanity, but she certainly rescues “The Last of Us” from apocalyptic mope.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

What I’m saying, Little Charlie, is y’all ain’t gonna have much time to mope ’round and mourn; you best start looking to hiring yourself out.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

“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

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

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

Anything faster is classified as an moped or e-motorcycle, which can require someone to have a motorcycle classification on their license.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

About 10 police vehicles were in attendance, with a Lime bike, cement lorry, two cars and a moped parked within the cordon.

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

The look in his eye when he’d gotten on the moped the last time...I couldn’t shake that.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

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

I’m through with moping Moping from all this pointless hoping Hoping he’ll notice me and open his heart Time now to break away and make a new start.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

She was not moping for Lancelot, nor did she weep for him on her pillow.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White