This was not what Will hoped to hear, and he made a mopey little nod.

"It's very rare for her to have a mopey day," Gregory said.

This isn't mopey music, though: these are tidy, infectious little songs.

What about all those mopey late-seventies and early-eighties British bands?

But really, I have just been terribly terribly mopey ever since you visited us.

But the objects of the men's affections are alternately mopey and whining.

He couldn't imagine a blind person being led by a sad, mopey little basset hound.

Why was everyone so mopey?

Several mopey students played cards.

You'll be as mopey as one of those last-of-the-line dragons who have no kindred left in the world.

Mr. Bana is so mopey and indistinct that it is hard to remember him from one scene to the next.

Similarly, I like to pretend that Morrissey is parodying a mopey depressed romantic.

Her only complaint was Andy's characterization throughout the episode and the ninth season, as a whole, for being "mopey and self-obsessed."

Brady's Furry-Feathery Guys Consumers are mopey, but someone is buying durable goods.

Mr. Affleck's affably mopey performance finds just the right balance between obnoxious and sad sack.

Fractured Chekhov Hey, it's nearly a hundred years later, and most people are still no more optimistic about the future than those mopey Prozorov sisters.

This refrain doesn't come from some old R&B song; it comes from the spectacularly mopey neo-grunge band Staind.

It can't be easy to alternate arbitrary quirkiness with mopey introspection, but both actors throw themselves at their roles, if not quite into them, with heroic fervor.

While reviewing Supernaturally, Renshaw described Evie as "a heroine who's troubled without being mopey and is never a passive participant in the wild events around her."

Rae is impatiently giving a bathtub massage to Arco (Jack Stubblefield Johnson), a mopey old man who natters on about his aches and pains.

Each morning Lien and Hai wake up to mopey Western pop songs, notably Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground.

And I am warning you, Mel, if this guy breaks your heart and you are mopey for my wedding, I will personally kill both him and you.

Nina Zmievets is appropriately delicate but a mite too mopey in the title role, in a lead cast completed by Oleg Markov as a dictatorial ballet teacher.

They came in beat-up Volkswagen buses, they lit a lot of campfires, they played mopey music on portable phonographs, and they planted corn and tomatoes and marijuana.

If you don't already know who Bella is, why she's so mopey, and what the deal is between her and the even more mopey, distractingly contact-lensed Edward, well, tough.

Such a despondent prospect cast her into a mopish pessimism.

"I found things that would sound like a duck or like a wolf being mopish in a cage," he said.

She acts with the mopish dejection of a school-child who has just been robbed of a two-scoop ice cream cone."

"I'm not sure my mopish brooding is worth a broken leg," Angela pleasantly retorted, rising from her chair and moving the small distance to the balustrade.