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

They certainly were not those of a woman plunged in inconsolable grief, for she was neither mopish nor artificially gay.

From The Seven Secrets by Le Queux, William

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 Wingfield, Lewis

Dr. Bleedem, poor man! seeing her looking mopish, prescribed her a course of steel medicine.

From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III by M. Y. Halidom (pseud. Dryasdust)