Mopes

His wife often stays home and "mopes" while caring for their feisty dachshund, Baba, aging golden retriever, California, and their two horses. ❋ Keith L. Alexander (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He mopes around in a sort of despair, before suddenly realising: he is sitting on "an immense warehouse of white chalk". ❋ Unknown (2011)

“The Informers” just mopes around, wallowing in its misery and taking everything way too seriously. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just then 2 more radio cars manned by “young guns” came blasting down the block, past us, and slid to the curb right in front of the building, bailed from their cars and rushed in right up the stairs – totally ignoring two mopes standing by the front door landing. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

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. ❋ Valerie Strauss (2011)

Why is it that India as a country always wakes up after the thief mopes the place? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Brooklyn singer-songwriter mopes awesomely on this comparatively upbeat stunner from her sophomore disc, "Epic." ❋ Allison Stewart (2010)

But he's certainly more interesting than Marling, who mopes through this film like a supermodel who's just been told she needs to lose weight. ❋ Marshall Fine (2011)

So if you wanted to know who was watching "Cougartown," it's all the mopes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My partner and I exchanged glances and knew instinctively what the other had in mind, so we casually exited our unit and strolled towards the front door making conversation about all the “bullshit runs” at this location, nodded to the two mopes (“hows it going, guys”), and when along side them grabbed them both and put them on the building wall. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

A jilted would-be groom Shameless' Kearns mopes around London with his dislikable mates. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It has allowed Mrs. Palin to dismiss any criticism of her—no matter how straightforward—as yet more hostility from opponents, or as hoity-toity blather from inside-the-Beltway mopes. ❋ Kimberley A. Strassel (2011)

The workaday mopes who populate his films are ordinary dreamers sleepwalking through lives of quiet desperation — until fate intervenes and turns waking life into a low-rent yakuza thriller. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

The idea of actually having him go out and meet his old friends actually makes me more interested in this title than I would've been if you'd been all, "Superboy mopes over his dual heritage again!" ❋ Unknown (2009)