mope

He’s since apologized, saying, “I do town halls all around the world, and as you know, I mope sometimes.”

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2025

But the Bronx Bombers longtime general manager, Brian Cashman, didn’t mope, instead improving the American League champion roster with several adroit moves, starting with pitchers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025

Fortunately, Sennott is entertaining even as a mope.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024

"There's no time to mope around. The senior players have got to get the whole squad together and go 'we've got six games to go here'."

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024

“How sad for Feral. He was only worth one plum. Won’t he mope when we tell him.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Dad has started going to work again, but Mom mopes around the house.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

Simson's moped division puttered on after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall but eventually went bust in 2002.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Anything faster is classified as an moped or e-motorcycle, which can require someone to have a motorcycle classification on their license.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

The court heard how Teeton was was walking back from his barracks at 17:50 BST when Esan asked him if he could use his phone because his moped had broken down.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

The Metropolitan Police presented three images to the court showing Sir Idris, 53, after his moped triggered a speed camera on the morning of 21 June.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026

Roger moped along, looking even more morose than usual.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

He doesn’t respond to his various wake-up calls with stubborn defiance but a curiosity that shifts his moping into something akin to a geeky, fun-loving second adolescence.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026

Instead of moping over the setback, Ohtani has started eyeing his next boundary-pushing maneuver: To be a leadoff hitter and high-leverage reliever in the same game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025

As macho as the protagonist of a Lifetime movie, moping like an adolescent and watching too much TV, Mr. White’s Springsteen is clearly depressed, but Mr. Cooper’s script doesn’t provide much illumination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Why is it called “Uncle Vanya”? All the man does is mope, mope harder, try to do something other than moping, fail miserably and mope some more.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

Dimple could hear Transviolet playing in the background, which meant Celia was probably moping about Evan, even though she wouldn’t admit it.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon