I've been kind of mopy, downright depressed in fact on a couple of days, and beating myself up for being a failed one-shot-wonder has-been hack. From Wordnik.com. [11/16/08: Month go voom] Reference
When Jim Nixon and his wife, chasing each other merrily back and forth across the dewy path like the frolicsome young married couple they were, reached the door-yard, they found the old man fallen "mopy" in a way uncommon for him, and quite given over to a thoughtless, expressionless torpor and staring. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
The code means Memory or file system failures would not allow a mopy job to occur. From Wordnik.com. [Mopy Job?! « Become A Robot] Reference
I assume mopy refers to multiple copies, but then, I never knew what PC Load Letter meant either …. From Wordnik.com. [Mopy Job?! « Become A Robot] Reference
But, do they really believe the lunacy of the liberalism they spew, or are they towing the line so that they can keep that "in" crowd venue with the mopy miserable depressed liberals who wring thier hands at the unfairness of life, financial success, and carbon-dioxide?. From Wordnik.com. [Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off] Reference
I thought that it might be interesting if the Doctor went through a "willful" regen... he has been very mopy of late and getting to that "point in life" where he wants to partner up but finds it too painful...would explain a young Matt Doctor all I dont want to be tied downness?. From Wordnik.com. [Development of New Dr. Who Movie Confirmed | /Film] Reference
Whilst kept in a cage with but little sand and an outside water-glass which affords no means of washing its feathers, a bird is apt to become infested with insects; it is tormented by them day and night, and having no means of ridding itself of them, it grows thin and mopy, and at last dies a miserable death. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
Don't be mopy and flat -- they don't fine you for that. From Wordnik.com. [Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs] Reference
He got mopy and melancholy, and couldn't or wouldn't work. From Wordnik.com. [Anne's House of Dreams] Reference
I shall call at twelve in the carriage; and, mind, don't you look red and mopy. From Wordnik.com. [Trumps] Reference
Aunt Nesbit only gave me one of her mopy lectures about flirting, and would n't help me in the least. From Wordnik.com. [Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I] Reference
Essentially a statement of purpose against the twin bogeymen of late-'80s thrash and mopy '90s grunge. From Wordnik.com. [Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com] Reference
He is miserably married to Gwenyth Paltrow who acts extremely well as a dissatisfied wife annoyed her mopy husband. From Wordnik.com. [FreakyTrigger] Reference
"I shall be mighty glad to get rid of the mopy creature," Betty's mother had, said when they talked of my departure. From Wordnik.com. [Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird] Reference
For after all it is nothing: and a word even from this poor thin mopy Mr. Parsley might be relief to a poor soul in trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
September 17, 2008 3: 26: 00 PM CST mopy said ... welcome to the land of the employed. please leave 25\% of your paycheck with AIG and Social Security. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
Some, it is true, tried at the start to be friends, but Florrie, too keenly sensitive to the atmosphere around her to respond, was believed to be decidedly dull and mopy. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904] Reference
There's a surplus of unnecessary bodily fluids (vomit, blood, mock-semen); Cusack's mopy character unconvincingly falls for a manic pixie dream girl (Lizzy Caplan of "Mean Girls"), and Duke's character is a broken record of "don't ruin the future by altering the past!" utterances. From Wordnik.com. [mndaily.com - all articles] Reference
A mopy, world-weary air nowadays, which did not sit naturally on her. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
"Now, never again, Patty Fairfield, let me see you looking mopy or peevish about anything!. From Wordnik.com. [Patty's Butterfly Days] Reference
We are all so humdrum and mopy, I don't know what we should do without Benny to keep us moving. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Green Satin Gown] Reference
She came home last night and told me how she realized that the reason she’s so mopy and pissy is because she never does anything or goes out. From Wordnik.com. [Drama and appreciation] Reference
After discussing several mutual acquaintances she said, "Do you remember my tellin 'ye about the little lad that used to live here, and had such a miserable, mopy time of it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Playmate] Reference
Revise the mopy Tam Lin poem. From Wordnik.com. [Re: Book sale paypal payments...] Reference
Only Basil was a bit mopy. From Wordnik.com. [The Children of Wilton Chase] Reference
What’s a mopy?. From Wordnik.com. [Mopy Job?! « Become A Robot] Reference
"I'm mopy," I said frankly. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906] Reference
"Not with that mopy expression on your face. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Fiddler]
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