moping

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noun

The act of one who mopes.

UncommonScrabble 11

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verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of mope
nounmoping (plural mopings)

plural mopings

  1. The act of one who mopes.

    He fell from one state of anxiety to the next and worried himself almost to death with hypochondriacal mopings.

    1966, Carl Gustav Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, page 51

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