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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"Look here, Phil," he declared, "if you want to be as mopish as a mildewed owl yourself, that is no reason why you should try to make me so too."
From The Puritans by Bates, Arlo
Charlie Meynell gave him a line of introduction to me; said he was a decent sort, but mopish!
From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
They certainly were not those of a woman plunged in inconsolable grief, for she was neither mopish nor artificially gay.
From The Seven Secrets by Le Queux, William