mopish
Example Sentences
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Consider the first sentences of “The Seven Simons,” by Ruth Manning-Sanders: “Once upon a time there was a great Emperor who felt himself to be so clever and so handsome that nowhere in the world could he find a wife worthy of him. This vexed him sorely, and he became irritable and mopish.”
From Washington Post
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
You are too mopish to act for yourself.
From Project Gutenberg
"This mopish place affects your nerves, and no wonder," he said.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
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