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  • present tense form of mope (3rd person singular).
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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

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




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