mopish
Americanadjective
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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
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
Yea, mother, I see that ye hold with that mopish elf.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew
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
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