mopish
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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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You are too mopish to act for yourself.
From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis
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
It drives out instantly from Romeo a sentimental love that had made him mopish and wan.
From William Shakespeare by Masefield, John