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
Whenever one feels dull and mopish, he should indulge in the luxury of a Turkish bath.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
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