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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Yea, mother, I see that ye hold with that mopish elf.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew
It will never do to idle away our time, as we've been doing," she said to herself, "or there'll be constant bickerings, and we shall all get slack and mopish.
From The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas by Strang, Mrs. Herbert
"I never saw you so mopish," angrily exclaimed Mrs. Gray, "never!"
From Rachel Gray by Kavanagh, Julia