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moping

/mohp/US // moʊp //UK // (məʊp) //

闷闷不乐,闷骚,闷闷不乐的,闷声发大财

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    moped, mop·ing.

    • : to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
v.有主动词 verb
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    moped, mop·ing.

    • : to make dejected, listless, or apathetic.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a person who mopes or is given to moping.
    • : mopes, depressed spirits; blues.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbpout, be dejected

Examples

  • Faced with a moping, stony-faced new partner, Beth did not selflessly set aside her own pain to help.

  • Think Grey's Anatomy with less moping and more ass-kicking.

  • Myself, when I begun my carear among the fair six, I was always sighing and moping, like this poar Frenchman.

  • Minetta suspected her of moping for John Willie, and told her that he often disappeared for days at a time like that.

  • He would otherwise have been sure to make several horrible songs about her experiences with the moping Elvira.

  • He went back to the hotel buoyed up in spite of himself, and found Alan moping in the reading-room.

  • They spent the day moping and fretting, because they no longer had fine clothes to wear, and could not go to fine parties.