1
as in bowing
bending downward or forward
the droopy heads of tired fans riding home on the bus
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2
as in floppy
not stiff in structure
a droopy stalk of celery
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3
as in depressed
feeling unhappiness
looking droopy and miserable while standing in the pouring rain
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Recent Examples of droopy
However, if leaves are still droopy in the morning, its time to water.
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Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Pawpaw trees, with their droopy, tropical-looking leaves, are found along creeks, streams and rivers, inseparable from the American landscape.
—John Vukmirovich, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Owens once mused that he’ll probably be remembered for droopy shorts, long T-shirts and funky sneakers — among menswear designs enthusiastically embraced by hype beasts and tech entrepreneurs.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 25 June 2025
To her immense credit, Chelsea is unafraid to chastise her droopy-dog of a partner whenever his near-constant complaining goes overboard.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025
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This one’s floppy collar drew me in, while the $25 price kept me on the page.—
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As a remedy, researchers have created a soft mechanical metamaterial—a rubber sheet cut into a repeating pattern—that can perform matrix-vector multiplication using floppy modes, or motions that require almost no energy.—
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Countries such as the Netherlands and Canada that passed similar bills have gone on to expand this type of legislation to allow doctors to give lethal medication to the depressed and other people with mental illnesses.—
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Yes, our political leaders have given some of us reason to be resentful, cynical and even depressed.—
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James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, likened our planet’s tilting phenomenon to a nodding head.—
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Video captured it all, down to the motorist going limp and the vehicle crashing down the street.—
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DeSantis has offered a few limp rationalizations for his demand, but nothing that would overcome the sheer gall of this re-write of the rules.—
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In Democratic cities, people demand 38 meetings and three dozen environmental assessments before tearing down a crack den to build a nursery for sad orphans.—
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Although there are infinitely many happy numbers there are also infinitely many sad ones.—
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And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.—
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.—
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This is a no-win situation because one of us will end up unhappy.—
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The automaker spent much of the year undoing decisions made by the previous CEO, Carlos Tavares, who resigned at the end of 2024, as stakeholders in the company — from dealers to union rank and file — were upset with him and unhappy with his leadership.—
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The building with its bowed windows and a Queen Ann tower had already been around for nine years before its owner placed a classified ad in a July 1897 issue of The Kansas City Times.—
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No racist stereotypes, no demeaning facial expressions, no bowed heads, and no broken bodies from the old Hollywood.—
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“Droopy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/droopy. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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