Moping
[məʊpɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mope
Editor: Lorna
Examples
- Mrs. Gummidge, no longer moping in her especial corner, was busy preparing breakfast. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Why do you sit moping there, Annie? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- We were moping along down through this dreadful place, every man in the rear. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I say, David, to the young this is a world for action, and not for moping and droning in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She only sat in her room like a moping, dishevelled hawk, motionless, mindless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The General and I were moping together tete-a-tete. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Why don't you come to us of an evening, instead of moping at home with that Captain Dobbin? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Won't that be better than moping here? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Through several succeeding days he saw her at different times from the window of his room moping disconsolately about the garden. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Editor: Lorna