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mopish

[moh-pish] / ˈmoʊ pɪʃ /






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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

Charlie Meynell gave him a line of introduction to me; said he was a decent sort, but mopish!

From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

It drives out instantly from Romeo a sentimental love that had made him mopish and wan.

From William Shakespeare by John Masefield

It must be mischievous fudge about those cakes; a silly tittle-tattle of ignorant servants, to which Gabrielle, mopish and morbid, had given too willing an ear.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield


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