adverb
- in a dejected or listless manner; gloomily
Usage: literary
Examples
- She walked mopingly through the empty hallways after hearing the bad news.
- He sat mopingly in his room, staring out the window at the rain.
- The dog waited mopingly by the door for its owner to return.
- After the argument, she mopingly picked at her dinner.
- The children wandered mopingly around the house on the rainy day.