mopes
- n an informal expression for a mildly depressed state
have the mopes - n someone who wastes time
- v move around slowly and aimlessly
- v be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed
- v to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
- v make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
- Grace mopes, but the magazine benefits.
- Millions and millions of people have had their retirement plans shredded by these banker-mopes, millions have lost their jobs.
- Instead of displaying regal authority and a poignant awareness of death, Richard Easton as the king mopes, whines and stumbles about the stage in tattered melancholy, a sort of .