mopey
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈməʊpi/
mopey (comparative mopier, superlative mopiest)
- Given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.
- 1888, Charlotte M. Yonge, Beechcroft at Rockstone, ch. 14:
- [T]hat is partly owing . . . to young Alexis having been desultory and mopy of late—not taking the interest in his music he did.
- 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, ch. 11:
- He got mopy and melancholy, and couldn't or wouldn't work.
- 2003, Michael Kinsley, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1005876-2,00.html Why Bush Angers Liberals]," Time, 13 Oct.:
- In the 1980s, liberals nursed the fear that we really might be dwelling in an irrelevant cul-de-sac outside of the majority American culture. That kept us sullen and mopey.
- 1888, Charlotte M. Yonge, Beechcroft at Rockstone, ch. 14:
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