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as in bowing
bending downward or forward
the droopy heads of tired fans riding home on the bus
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as in floppy
not stiff in structure
a droopy stalk of celery
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as in depressed
feeling unhappiness
looking droopy and miserable while standing in the pouring rain
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Recent Examples of droopy
As a result, what may seem like a routine beauty treatment — a few Botox injections — has left some patients with slurred speech, droopy eyelids and even breathing difficulties requiring respiratory support.
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Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2026
Dehydrated Leaves If your plant's leaves look wilted or droopy, these could be signs of dehydration.
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Heather Bien,
The Spruce,
19 Jan. 2026
This lovable droopy-eared dog sleeps on top of his doghouse.
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Bestreviews,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
But a few weeks into the holiday season, that greenery can look more like Charlie Brown’s sad tree—droopy, dry, and shedding needles.
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Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Dec. 2025
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Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2026
Dehydrated Leaves If your plant's leaves look wilted or droopy, these could be signs of dehydration.
—
Heather Bien,
The Spruce,
19 Jan. 2026
This lovable droopy-eared dog sleeps on top of his doghouse.
—
Bestreviews,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
But a few weeks into the holiday season, that greenery can look more like Charlie Brown’s sad tree—droopy, dry, and shedding needles.
—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for droopy
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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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Dogs of all shapes and sizes entered the gates of Citi Field Thursday night with wagging tails, floppy ears and plenty of Mets gear.
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Jayden Antropov, a floppy-haired recent high-school graduate, had taken the day off from working two part-time jobs, at Publix and at a burger joint.
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The pseudonymous title character, a depressed, drunken, belligerent twenty-six-year-old advice columnist, has no real hardships of his own and is cursed by doubt.
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Supergirl is a story about a depressed, super-powered woman who is pulled out of her bar-hopping to help other people and find her purpose.
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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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Rats, cockroaches and weasels run amok, tearing through limp tent sheets and biting children and newborn babies in their sleep.
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Of course, London is not short of premium lunch options or businesses built around the idea that office workers will pay for something better than a limp sandwich between meetings.
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Day broke, bathing everything in light, and so great was the vitality of the early-morning sun that even the unhappy city seemed to smile a wan, sad smile.
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But SpringHill really took off in 2020, two seasons into James’ Lakers term, when The SpringHill Company went public (and the Lakers won the sad COVID-bubble NBA Championship).
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The decade was an unhappy panorama of inflation, gas shortages, military humiliation, and revelations of political corruption.
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On Tuesday, Paul urged Americans who are unhappy with the justices’ ruling to support his proposal.
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Remarkably, La Roja have failed to win a knockout round match in their last three World Cups, but expect Lamine Yamal and company to end that miserable run today.
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But the American job market has chugged along, continuing to rebound from a miserable 2025.
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“Droopy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/droopy. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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