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
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It makes her so sad and mopish to be always with Miss Haworth.
From Good Old Anna by Marie Belloc Lowndes
And yet I have not been very mopish and melancholy; have I, Bell?
From The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
"This mopish place affects your nerves, and no wonder," he said.
From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield