mopish

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Our childhood was by no means dull or mopish, for there were three of us and we got on very well together, but we mixed hardly at all with children of our own age, our interests were not theirs, and their boisterous ways were somewhat repellent to us Our father was a great believer in liberty, and, strange to say, he put his ideas into practice in his own household.

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  1. Dull; spiritless; stupid; dejected; mentally or physically depressed. One day in his preaching he [the pastor of an Independent church in Scotland] cursed the light, and fell down as dead in his pulpit. The people carried him out, laid him upon a gravestone, and poured strong waters into him, which fetched him to life again; and they carried him home, but he was mopish. Journal of George Fox (Phila. ed.), p. 282.

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  • Our childhood was by no means dull or mopish, for there were three of us and we got on very well together, but we mixed hardly at all with children of our own age, our interests were not theirs, and their boisterous ways were somewhat repellent to us Our father was a great believer in liberty, and, strange to say, he put his ideas into practice in his own household. —  A Girl Among the Anarchists
  • Presently even these ceased or passed from view, and then succeeded what Janice thought a very "mopish" two hours, terminated at last by the arrival of the aide with his invitation, which sent her to her room for a little extra prinking If I had only worn my lutestring," she sighed. —  Janice Meredith
  • You were always kind of moody and mopish--and you needed work that'd keep you on the jump. —  The Turmoil, a novel
  • And yet I have not been very mopish and melancholy; have I, Bell? —  The Small House at Allington
  • "But he thinks that I have been -- have been mopish, and lack-a-daisical, and -- and -- almost untrue. —  The Vicar of Bullhampton
 

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