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droopy

[droo-pee] / ˈdru pi /


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William, who Rona chirpily informs us has “a rare mucous membrane disorder,” is happy to get “lugubrious”: “Meaning extremely sad and droopy? A topic I am all too familiar with.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

Then I woke up with a really droopy face and my eyes sort of wide open.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024

Michelson’s devotion to animal welfare extended to his own pet Blue, a beige-and-white dog with droopy eyes he celebrated on Instagram with the tongue-in-cheek handle @scarypitbully.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

Malaska’s brushwork is at once vigorous, detailed and patterned, then loose and almost abstract or even droopy and distorted.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

I used the red ribbon from the chocolate box to grab the opossum’s droopy tail and dropped him in.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

The road trips have been long, the games have been stacked and, inside the Lakers’ locker room, the eyes have been droopier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2023

The shrouded bunch was much droopier, with many black leaves and an off smell.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2022

Their zeal, their diverse characterizations and their startlingly rapid costume changes prop up even the droopier, more sentimental scenes well into the second act.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2019

Luciano’s droopy eye seems to be getting droopier with every episode.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2014

He wore pyjama tops as shirts and had a droopy moustache and even droopier bags under his eyes that hinted at a world of pain.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2012

Every inch of grass was covered with tents—row after crooked row of the grimiest, droopiest tents Nate had ever seen.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis




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