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  • present participle of mope.

moping









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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

Ezra's job seems simple - but writing life-affirming pop songs is much harder than moping around being edgy.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2023

And Shirley had been moping for weeks over the loss of the World Series.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord




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