Crossword-Solution: MOPY 4 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

What splendiferous specimens he must have the run of! Our Stebbing says ‘tis because Kally White makes eyes at him; but any way, White has got to do his work while he’s away, and go all the rounds to see that things are right, so I go after him, and he lets me have just what I like--such jolly crystals.’ ‘I am sure I hope it is all right.’ ‘Oh yes, I always ask him, as you told me; but he is awfully slow and mopy and down in the mouth to-day.

White’s foolish talk, and in part to young Alexis having been desultory and mopy of late--not taking the interest in his music he did.

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.

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.

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.