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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"Then what makes you so infernally mopish and melancholy?"
From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Prest, Thomas Preskett
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 yet I have not been very mopish and melancholy; have I, Bell?
From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony