Moping

We've been moping around too much. It's time to pull ourselves together and keep trying.

If I were you, Tom, I'd stop moping about the house, go outside in this lovely autumn sunshine, and pick some blackberries before they go bad.

I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson, always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much with the men of my year.

"Why do you sit moping there, Annie?" cried her brother. "Come out into the sunshine!"

"Why do you sit moping there, Annie?" cried her brother. "Come out into the sunshine!" "No, thank you, Joseph. I have a slight headache and this room is deliciously cool and soothing."

Stop moping about here doing nothing and get back to work quick smart.

Groups of excursionists, arrayed in unattractive traveling costumes, were moping about in a drizzling rain and looking as droopy and woebegone as so many molting chickens.

Stop moping around!

Tom has been moping around the house all week.

He fell from one state of anxiety to the next and worried himself almost to death with hypochondriacal mopings.