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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It drives out instantly from Romeo a sentimental love that had made him mopish and wan.
From William Shakespeare by John Masefield
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 Mrs. Herbert Strang
Charlie Meynell gave him a line of introduction to me; said he was a decent sort, but mopish!
From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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