Moping

Synonyms for "moping" (47 found)

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Related word relations

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More general

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affectbehaviorbehavioral statedemeanoremotional stateliterary devicemoodnarrative techniquestate of mind

More specific

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broodingemotional characterizationgloominessglumnesslong moping spellmorosenessnarrative moodpoutingshort moping periodsulkinesssulkingtone setting

Collocations

11 entries
habitual mopingmopey demeanormoping aroundmoping behaviormoping demeanormoping expressionmoping moodmoping periodmoping silencemoping toneprolonged moping

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

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Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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

Source: tatoeba (63048)

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.

Source: tatoeba (6207498)

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.

Source: tatoeba (6981659)

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

Source: tatoeba (7414221)

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