mopey

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Recent Examples of mopey 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
  • Instead, Helen is allowed to be irritable and anti-social, chain-smoking and snappish, without the filmmaker casting judgment.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
  • If you are rushed or irritable, say so.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The President is a sullen bore, but Servillo’s performance is always a hair less moribund than the movie around it, and held tight by the sincerity of his ambivalence.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Until the UFOs arrive, the sullen grandeur of OK Computer will have to suffice for Yorke, and the rest of us, too.
    EW Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Founder Max Siegelman drew upon his family’s harness racing roots thanks to the boarding and teaching facility for the sport involving the powerful animal, a sulky and human direction that dates to the 1800s in the US.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Harness racing was his first love, and during the next half-century, his name became synonymous with the sulky sport in Chicagoland.
    Neil Milbert, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The passengers include several other mountain trekkers, among them an American professor (Bernard Curry) and his teenage daughter, Starr (Grace O’Sullivan), the latter’s nature instantly signified by her pouty demeanor and inability to put away her cell phone.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 26 June 2025
  • Their brows are furrowed, their mouths are pouty, their faces are twisted into ever-more over-the-top expressions of longing and ambivalence.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Mopey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mopey. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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