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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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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.