moping 1 of 2

present participle of mope
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as in pouting
to silently go about in a bad mood she's been moping all weekend because her boyfriend hasn't called even once

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moping

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adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of moping
Adjective
In June the McCoys went back to Bloomington and Catherine spent the summer moping. Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025 Marysol and Alexia take Julia, Lisa, and an unusually dour Adriana, who is moping about her birthday and how society discards women of a certain age. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025 One week, a colleague noticed Packard moping around the office and asked what was wrong. Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025 Rather than moping about, get your shop on with one or all of these many holiday sales. Averi Baudler, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moping
Verb
  • Whether or not to cut back coneflowers is ultimately based on preference, but there are some advantages to delaying the process.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But SpaceX is not remotely ready to deliver, with serial failures of its mammoth Starship rocket delaying development of the lander.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This was followed by a shot of them all pouting as Landon and Alabama flashed peace signs and their dad took his turn to flip off the camera.
    Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Front man Coleman cuts a tall, brooding figure, saving his emotions for his vocal delivery and occasional pronouncements on the importance of faith.
    Brian McCollum, Freep.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • When One Tree Hill premiered in 2003, Chad Michael Murray had already cemented his status as a brooding heartthrob.
    Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Tropical Storm Melissa is crawling through the Caribbean Sea, threatening to unleash life-threatening flooding and mudslides across parts of the region later this week.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • These flat robots have multiple modes of movement, capable of jumping or crawling at multiple speeds.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Jets Mike McDaniel’s slow, sulking walk off the field was just sad, which about sums up the Dolphins this season.
    Chad Graff, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Still, Brown did not spend his offseason sulking.
    Sean Gregory, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Emery was irritable at full time.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Additionally, Owens’ youngest child, Titus, who was just a toddler when his mother died, was confused, irritable and inconsolable in the weeks after her death, Dias shared.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But Gronowski’s offseason shoulder injury that cost him spring practices might be a lingering issue.
    Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
  • These recordings blur the lines between memory, trauma, and supernatural experience, reflecting the lingering influence of Jonathan’s actions.
    Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Tom Hulce portrayed the musical prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as a petulant, bratty young genius with a distinctive laugh, insatiable appetite and endless talent.
    Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Wyeth is a little petulant at first about the biographical piece of it.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Moping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moping. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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