1888, Charlotte M. Yonge, Beechcroft at Rockstone, ch. 14:That 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, "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.
