Definitions
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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mope .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an informal expression for a mildly depressed state
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Examples
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His wife often stays home and "mopes" while caring for their feisty dachshund, Baba, aging golden retriever, California, and their two horses.
For Chandra Levy's family, trial won't bring an end to grief Keith L. Alexander 2010
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His wife often stays home and "mopes" while caring for their feisty dachshund, Baba, aging golden retriever, California, and their two horses.
For Levy family, trial won't bring an end to grief Keith L. Alexander 2010
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His wife often stays home and "mopes" while caring for their feisty dachshund, Baba, aging golden retriever, California, and their two horses.
For Chandra Levy's family, trial won't bring an end to grief Keith L. Alexander 2010
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His wife often stays home and "mopes" while caring for their feisty dachshund, Baba, aging golden retriever, California, and their two horses.
For Chandra Levy's family, trial won't bring an end to grief Keith L. Alexander 2010
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His wife often stays home and "mopes" while caring for their feisty dachshund, Baba, aging golden retriever, California, and their two horses.
For Chandra Levy's family, trial won't bring an end to grief Keith L. Alexander 2010
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And Everything Was Alright, "concerns a bear who generally gets dumped on by the non-bear world and kind of mopes around, until one day saving up enough cereal box tops to allow him to blast into space.
Baltimore City Paper 2009
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So if you wanted to know who was watching "Cougartown," it's all the mopes.
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“The Informers” just mopes around, wallowing in its misery and taking everything way too seriously.
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More recently, the much-discussed film Waiting for Superman hammered home the same theme, depicting teachers as dozing mopes in New York City's infamous "rubber room" or screaming lunatics manipulated by out-of-touch unions.
How to be taken seriously as a reformer (don't be an educator) Valerie Strauss 2011
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So if you wanted to know who was watching "Cougartown," it's all the mopes.
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