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drooping

/ˈdɹuːpɪŋ/ adjective C2
  1. That droops or droop. · drooping flowers
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See the foxhound with hanging ears and drooping tail as it lolls about the kennels, and compare it with the same hound as, with gleaming eyes and straining muscles, it runs upon a breast-high scent—such was the change in Holmes since the morning.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 15 · B2
Accordingly, after milking, behold Marilla and Anne walking down the lane, the former erect and triumphant, the latter drooping and dejected.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 74 · C1
Matthew did not know that Samuel, in the recent expansion of his business, had set up a lady clerk also; she was a niece of his wife’s and a very dashing young person indeed, with a huge, drooping pompadour, big, rolling brown eyes, and a most extensive and bewildering smile.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 189 · C1
Dantès laid the different things he had been looking at on the table, and stood with his head drooping on his breast, as though overwhelmed by the perseverance and strength of Faria’s mind.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 158 · C1

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