as in pouting
given to or displaying a resentful silence and often irritability
I don't know what's made him all mopey, but he's getting hard to live with
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Recent Examples of mopey
Farrell’s Sonny Crockett is a brooding, messy, temperamental cop whose impulsiveness and (ahem) intensity is balanced by his mopey vulnerability.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
At least original franchise director James Wan had his signature boom-crash camera snaps to shock some urgency into the mopey storytelling.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
At least original franchise director James Wan had his signature boom-crash camera snaps to shock some urgency into the mopey storytelling.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mopey
Adjective
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Some of the consequences of owing your body sleep are readily apparent, like feeling drowsy, irritable, or brain-foggy, or catching seemingly every virus.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
6 Jan. 2026
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Accompanying Rayner through these daily adventures were the irritable duck Chelveston (named after his English bomber base) and the gentle dog puppet Cuddly Dudley.—
Michael Peregrine,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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While Nina’s 7-year-old daughter, Cece (Indiana Elle), is sullen, and her dreamboat husband, Andrew (Brandon Sklenar), is politely cautious about the prospect of a live-in housekeeper, Nina herself seems nice enough at first, if a little intense.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
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Shane, a wholesome Canadian, anchors his national team and is drafted by the Montreal Metros, while Russian team anchor Ilya is a seemingly sullen bad boy drafted by the Boston Raiders.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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After a strange courtship ritual—in which, as a favor to Liveright, Cerf accompanied the writer Theodore Dreiser to an afternoon baseball game that the latter man, bored, sulky, whisked them from around the sixth inning—Cerf took the job.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Nov. 2025
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Still, Ortega’s performance proves that sulky, baleful gravity doesn’t have to lose its strange luster over time (a third season has already been announced).—
Tom Gliatto,
PEOPLE,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This is a grumpy, pouty, dreary team right now.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Dec. 2025
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This is a look that’s equal parts polished and edgy, so go all-out with a full leather ensemble, wearing leather pants or thigh-high leather boots with a Parisian signature—a pouty red lip.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Dec. 2025
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“Mopey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mopey. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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