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
De Thorold's guests are wiser than The men of mopish lore; For round they push the smiling can And slice the plattered store.
From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by Dawson, William Francis
It makes her so sad and mopish to be always with Miss Haworth.
From Good Old Anna by Lowndes, Marie Belloc