mopes
Example Sentences
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Thirty miles away in the District, Vancine Washington, 66, wakes up on Sunday mornings “and kind of mopes around a bit.”
From Washington Post
Even after you drag and bribe and get him to practice, he mopes around, doesn’t listen to the coach and puts in no effort.
From Washington Post
Minnick said she brings Bali out to do therapy at least twice a week, and if they don’t go out, he gets depressed and “mopes around,” she said.
From Washington Times
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
At its weakest, though, Ford’s prose mopes with at-hand utterances: “part and parcel,” “pride and joy,” “this and that.”
From Washington Post
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