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mopey

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈməʊpɪ/Sorted emopyStarts with MEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Gloomy, listless, or inclined to sulk.

Word origin

From mope + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • [T]hat is partly owing . . . to young Alexis having been desultory and mopy of late—not taking the interest in his music he did.
  • He got mopy and melancholy, and couldn't or wouldn't work.
  • In the 1980s, liberals nursed the fear that we really might be dwelling in an irrelevant cul-de-sac outside of the majority American culture. That kept us sullen and mopey.

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