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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

But he thinks that I have been—have been mopish, and lack-a-daisical, and—and—almost untrue.

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony

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)

De Thorold's guests are wiser than The men of mopish lore; For round they push the smiling can And slice the plattered store.

From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by Dawson, William Francis