mopish

Example Sentences

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These give an insight into the physical and mental anxieties of Shakespearean England - whether being "thrust with a rapier in his privy parts" or suffering from being "mopish" or "melancholy".

From BBC • May 15, 2019

In the film Stanton is less grand and less sexy, and Travolta plays it subdued, a tad mopish.

From Time Magazine Archive

And, their eating over, the more part of them sat dull and mopish, and as if all things were forgotten for the time present.

From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by Morris, William

"Look here, Phil," he declared, "if you want to be as mopish as a mildewed owl yourself, that is no reason why you should try to make me so too."

From The Puritans by Bates, Arlo

I would rather spend the evening with Mariana in the moated grange, for that mopish damsel would let me sit still and sulk if I wanted to.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion