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mopish

[moh-pish] / ˈmoʊ pɪʃ /






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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

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 Strang, Mrs. Herbert

And yet I have not been very mopish and melancholy; have I, Bell?

From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony

I would rather spend the evening with Mariana in the moated grange, for that mopish damsel would let me sit still and sulk if I wanted to.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion




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