as in pouting
given to or displaying a resentful silence and often irritability
I don't know what's made him all mopey, but he's getting hard to live with
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Adjective
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By the end, Liverpool’s players seemed tired and Klopp was irritable, clearly in need of a rest.—
Simon Hughes,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025 -
The trio’s sixth record is charmingly irritable in both of its moods: hopped up on fluffy coffee while cracking baseball jokes, or dragging out downbeats and lamenting power structures to goad listeners with mounting anticipation.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The New Daughter has an interesting, sullen mood and looks fantastic, but that just further accentuates how out of place Costner seems.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
1 July 2024
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One of the migrants looks at the camera with sullen eyes and a rugged beard.—
Kunal Sehgal,
CNN,
22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Horse race At the harness racing week on the Freehold Raceway in New Jersey: a reverse race with the sulky fixed in front of the horse - 1930.—
Contessa Brewer,
CNBC,
31 Dec. 2024
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Still, certain sensitivities might need to be respected as the excitable Gemini Moon shoves sulky Saturn.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Aug. 2024
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Instead, Schrader recasts his old American Gigolo — Gere’s wisps of white hair, unshaven beard, and wheelchair mostly recall a pouty version of elderly Henry Miller in Warren Beatty’s Reds.—
Armond White,
National Review,
25 Dec. 2024
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This is Martha before the magazine and the product lines, before the Snoop Dogg friendship and the pouty lips.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN,
28 Jan. 2024
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“Mopey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mopey. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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