[V] to spend your time doing nothing and feeling sorry for yourself:
Moping won't do any good!
PHRASALVERBS
mope about / around (...) (disapproving) to spend time walking around a place with no particular purpose, especially because you feel sorry for yourself:
Instead of moping around the house all day, you should be out there looking for a job.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for mope is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is mope a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, mope is tagged as verb.
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