What is "mope"

Usage examples of "mope".

Arnie Boysenberry got up, left the office and moped down the steps to his office on the next floor.

Numbers of all diseased--all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.

Intestine stone and ulcer, colic-pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence.

The skinny oldster moping in the rear was Area Supervisor of the Pan-Sirian Association of Lizard Watchers.

By sunrise, the entire combined forces of the invaders had cast aside their weapons and dissolved into a tide of morose and peevish stragglers moping across the countryside, utterly disorganized, complaining about trifles and whining over petty grievances, totally absorbed in their own vexations and displeasures.

Greeblinger Pass, they found thousands of men whining and wailing and moping and moaning as they stumbled aimlessly about.

When Romeo mopes and frets about his unproductive non-relationship with a certain Rosaline, who never appears in the play but is instead the disembodied goddess whom he fruitlessly worships, Mercutio mocks his misplaced adoration.

I gave him the required bank information, did a quick mental evaluation of what was left, and moped for the next fifteen minutes while lusting after practically everything in the new Ann Tayler online catalogue.

Tankado went to work on an old Moped and ate a bag lunch alone at his desk instead of joining the rest of the department for prime rib and vichyssoise in the commissary.

For hours he had moped about his tiny cabin in the planetoid-ship, dreaming of the good old days back at the family spinnery before he had lost his job as a young apprentice bus driver and had been facing the dismal prospect of disownment from the Nest for disgraceful negligence.

So it was that, as hour followed hour and the tale of them lengthened into days, he fell into a temper of morbid brooding that was little like the man, and instead of faring abroad and seeking what amusement he might find in the most carefree city of the post-War world, shut himself up in his rooms and moped, indifferent to all things but the knocks at his door, the stridulation of the telephone bell that might announce the arrival of the desired message.

That, said Tom, was addlebrained, for she would only mope herself to death at Austerby.

We were not the moping, complaining graybeards that many might suppose we must have been.

Numbers of all diseased--all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.

But Winton knew well that she was moping, and cherishing some feeling against himself.