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Meanings of mope in English

Catalan
triganer

Someone who wastes time.

triganer

Be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed.

Move around slowly and aimlessly.

Synonyms
Examples for "mope around"
Examples for "mope around"
1
The remark began to mope around in the writer's mind.
The new yorker
2
A good way to get you outside when you just want to mope around indoors.
The South African
3
While other bears would socialise, she would mope around her enclosure, head down, seemingly in agony.
The Guardian
4
I do unkind, cowardly things, harbor unmerciful thoughts, and mope around when I should be doing something constructive.
Feminist dot com
5
Don't mope around complaining about it, get a deep tissue massage, or go see a doctor or physical therapist.
Climbing Magazine
Usage of mope in English
1
Are you really going to mope your way through the New Year?
Any way you want me
2
All the rest of the day he would mope in silent wretchedness.
Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine
3
I'm not going to complain, I'm not going to mope about it.
Reuters
4
Ma tolerates you, just lets you sit around the house and mope.
Depraved
5
She would not mope, and she would not show the white feather.
One Man in His Time
6
So I put that in and the song devolves into a mope.
Radio NZ
7
Or sit there and mope and go bananas and get into, what?
Life
8
He began to mope, did no business, and shortly afterward sailed away.
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
9
I don't care to mope here when you are out enjoying yourself.
A Crooked Path: A Novel
10
But all he does is mope about and throw the odd tantrum.'
Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident
11
We mope outside for a moment as the hordes spill out.
Radio NZ
12
I go on sitting in my corner, and mope and worry and argue.
Glimpses of Bengal / Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindrana...
13
The remainder of the day Glen was too busy to mope.
The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters; Or, The Lost Treasure of Buffalo...
14
Nor did he, wallflower fashion, mope in the meanwhile and look unutterable things.
Taken Alive
15
It's impossible not to rejoice at the triumphs and mope at the setbacks.
The Irish Times
16
The mope's still at the same job he had back then.
Flash and Bones
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Translations for mope
Mope through the time
Mope across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common