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mopish

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[moh-pish] / ˈmoʊ pɪʃ /

adjective

  1. given to moping; listless, apathetic, or dejected.


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Etymology

Origin of mopish

First recorded in 1615–25; mope + -ish 1

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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

"This mopish place affects your nerves, and no wonder," he said.

From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield

"Then what makes you so infernally mopish and melancholy?"

From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

It must be mischievous fudge about those cakes; a silly tittle-tattle of ignorant servants, to which Gabrielle, mopish and morbid, had given too willing an ear.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield

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