verb
definition
To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
definition
To make spiritless and stupid.
noun
definition
The act of one who mopes.
Examples of moping in a Sentence
She's been moping around every since you left.
She should be supporting him, not moping around imagining the worst.
The sight of the lights thrilled her, reminded her she needed to stop moping around and live her life like a glowing chili pepper.
Jake 's still moping around feeling sorry for himself, and starting the occasional punch-up for good measure.
Jill is devastated, but instead of moping around, she does something about it.
It transpires that the reason for the couple 's moping is they believe they are unable to conceive.
Jake's still moping around feeling sorry for himself, and starting the occasional punch-up for good measure.
Biographers have delighted to relate how painfully Demosthenes made himself a tolerable speaker, - how, with pebbles in his mouth, he tried his lungs against the waves, how he declaimed as he ran up hill, how he shut himself up in a cell, having first guarded himself against a longing for the haunts of men by shaving one side of his head, how he wrote out Thucydides eight times, how he was derided by the Assembly and encouraged by a judicious actor who met him moping about the Peiraeus.