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  • present tense form of mope (3rd person singular).
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He usually follows me around the house, and he mopes when I’m gone.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2022

“Maddie doesn’t listen to me,” she complains, then mopes.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2021

It seems cruel to send her off to live her final years with my in-laws because she gets sad and mopes when we’re not around.

From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2020

Foy’s favorite episode focuses on John and Jackie Kennedy visiting Buckingham Palace in 1961, contrasting the youth of the Kennedys with the royals’ middle-aged mopes, one couple embodying a new hope, the other a stagnation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2017

He mopes around the house, resdess, pretending to be coming down with a cold.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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