Moping

His daughter's listless behavior since Lan had awakened was something he would have called moping in anyone else. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2000)

When people are moping, and do not know they are moping, that is the sign their wits are departing. ❋ Unknown (1907)

Later on in the day, (when the sun was hot and shining down) I saw Vonn kind of moping around near our patio with his hands on his hips, sort of shaking his head, looking at the space, looking a little concerned. ❋ Will (2009)

I was kind of moping around work when something marvelous happened. ❋ Qdiosa (2006)

Gray speaks of "moping" owls; Chatterton exclaims, "Harke! the dethe owle loude dothe synge"; whilst Hogarth introduces the same bird in the murder scene of his _Four Stages of Cruelty_. ❋ Elliott O'Donnell (1918)

After tea, fearing that her guests were in danger of "moping," Lady ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)

Most of them are pervaded by a brooding spirit of melancholy of the 'moping' rather than the 'musical' sort, and consequently rather ineffective as an artistic motive. ❋ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1824)

"Lindsay was kind of moping around, and Sam had to keep checking on her and cuddling her," our spy dished. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"moping," and when the band were within sight of the spring whence they had started, an age back, as it seemed, on the trail of the moose. ❋ Isabel Hornibrook (N/A)

I was walking yesterday and there was this guy bleeding from the head and he’s kind of moping around or whatever. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Everyone's kind of moping around here like we lost. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The person looks healthy but sure he/she is just moping, or grumpy or wallowing in self-pity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If Avatar was a moping, meandering look at childhood that went nowhere for two hours I wouldn't call it a blockbuster either. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Studies further show that while unemployed women spend more time on the home and the children, unemployed men spend more time moping, drinking, watching TV, and lashing out at those around them. ❋ June Carbone (2011)

Bill (Stephen Moyer) spends much time moping around or wallowing in the past. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not 17 or 18 or 21 – all of which still count as extremely young – but 16: the age of moping and loafing, of experimenting disastrously with basic heavy-metal guitar; of loitering quite near groups of girls and hoping to appear fascinatingly aloof rather than pustulous and gaunt. ❋ Unknown (2011)