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How to pronounce mope in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms moon about, moon around
Type of be
Type Words
Synonyms dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger
Type of idler, bum, loafer, layabout, do-nothing
Type Words
Synonyms mope around
Type of move

Examples of mope

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Spurs did not mope, and three minutes after the re-start they were ahead again.
From the independent.co.uk
Rather than mope, McGee has rallied the troops and is a positive, vocal leader.
From the stltoday.com
They mope, playfight, invade each others'space and adopt stereotyped behaviour.
From the guardian.co.uk
On the day he learned Feliz had won the award, Jackson didn't sit around and mope.
From the freep.com
Last year, he turned into a full-fledged mope, failing to cover a single mare.
From the thenewstribune.com
Don't just sit there avoiding the eyes of the other guys as you mope together.
From the news-journalonline.com
How do you know they didn't walk around in real life like that mope Buster Keaton?
From the psychcentral.com
Roberts so often has to mope and so rarely gets to be her famous radiant self.
From the time.com
If I mope around about not being a starter, it's not going to do me any good.
From the bostonherald.com
More examples
  • Dallier: someone who wastes time
  • Move around slowly and aimlessly
  • Be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed
  • (mopes) dumps: an informal expression for a mildly depressed state; "in the dumps"; "have the mopes"
  • "Mope" is the fourth single released from The Bloodhound Gang's 1999 album Hooray for Boobies. The music video features a man in a Pac-Man suit, portrayed as being on crack. The song also loosely portraits the Beastie Boys style of music.
  • (Moping) Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity. Depressed people may feel sad, anxious, empty, hopeless, helpless, worthless, guilty, irritable or restless. ...
  • Stephen Colbert's term for the Prophet or Mormon Pope
  • Multimission ORU Protective Enclosure
  • To sulk about not having a moustache