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To move or act listlessly and aimlessly, especially due to unhappiness or boredom

To think deeply about something that makes one unhappy, angry, or worried

To walk in a leisurely way

To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet

To be constantly or visibly anxious

A person given to prolonged spells of low spirits

The state of being mournful or in low spirits

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To move or act listlessly and aimlessly, especially due to unhappiness or boredom

temporize^US

temporise^UK

put off doing something

use delaying tactics

hold back

let the grass grow under one's feet

appear to pass slowly

kick the can down the road

avoid doing something

keep from doing something

employ delaying tactics

use dilatory tactics

put on the back burner

take one's own sweet time

avoid committing oneself

use Fabian tactics

avoid making a decision

balk^US

baulk^UK

stop what you're doing

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“Daddy had said I could stay home, but I didn't want to mope around the house all day, staring out the window like a fool.”

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To think deeply about something that makes one unhappy, angry, or worried

go about like a half-shut knife

be down in the mouth

wear a long face

feel sorry for yourself

agonize^US

feel despondent about

agonise^UK

romanticize^US

fantasize^US

rhapsodize^US

gush

rhapsodise^UK

romanticise^UK

fantasise^UK

be in a reverie

be in a brown study

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“I made up my mind that I was not going to sit around and mope all the time because if I did, I would lose all my friends.”

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To walk in a leisurely way

go for a constitutional

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To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet

plough^UK

plow^US

reconnoiter^US

reconnoitre^UK

go from place to place

go for a constitutional

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To be constantly or visibly anxious

fret

worry

agonise^UK

agonize^US

labor^US

labour^UK

be in a state of anxiety

have butterflies in one's stomach

be on pins and needles

be in a state of nervousness

be in a state of agitation

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A person given to prolonged spells of low spirits

death's head at a feast

sceptic^UK

bear with a sore head

skeptic^US

doom and gloom merchant

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“It's the first day of camp and you're being a big mope. Stop it!”

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The state of being mournful or in low spirits

vapors^US

vapours^UK

endogenous depression

spectre^UK

specter^US

dark night of the soul

trials and tribulations

acceptance of the inevitable

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