mopery
Definitions
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- noun Violation of an imaginary or trivial law.
Examples
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In Robert Bloch’s short story "The Unforgivable Sin", mopery is the titular indiscretion
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So why not just allow people to plead guilty to “mopery with intent to creep”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Recent Michigan Prosecutions for “Seducing an Unmarried Woman”
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He was a pretty big guy, who would make a point of approaching any crowd of rowdies, who would generally demonstrate their rowdiness by what was then called ‘mopery’, which basically meant being publicly unintimidated.
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In the 1973 film The MacKintosh Man, a convict claims to be incarcerated for mopery, explaining that it means that he "exposed himself to a blind person."
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Their friend Magda was picked up on first-degree mopery and taken back to Leverkusen, and an overgrown back court where electric lines spit overhead, the dusty bricks sprout weeds from the cracks, shutters are always closed, grass and weeds turn to bitterest autumn floor.
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For your Valentine’s Day pleasure, allow me to unload unto you a classic-yet-underrated slab of late 20th Century goth romantic mopery: “Stand Inside Your Love,” by The Smashing Pumpkins:
Note
The word 'mopery' may come from a word meaning 'fool'.
