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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I had an article to write for the "Atlantic," but felt mopish and could not write.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various
The child was silent, mopish, "good," as his mother said, congratulating herself on the effect of her summary visitation upon the offender.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various
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 Wingfield, Lewis