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

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

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 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