What's the difference between modish and mopish?

Modish


Definition:

  • (a.) According to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional; as, a modish dress; a modish feast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similarly literary and pensive was Clouds of Sils Maria , in which France's Olivier Assayas combined some modish themes — the internet, celebrity gossip, superhero movies — with some hoarier themes regarding the theatre-cinema divide, ageing and female rivalry.
  • (2) Dalgliesh is a frustrated poet, a graduate capable of the sort of introspection that, for the last three books, has been offset by the more modish preoccupations of kate Miskin.
  • (3) By his later years, Judt's adherence to scholarly standards, along with his contempt for charlatans such as Louis Althusser and for academic fashion, made him seem a conservative figure to more modish colleagues.
  • (4) More dated now than its hard-boiled lustre is the movie’s equal and opposite involvement in modish early 80s dreams; the soundtrack by Vangelis was up-to-the-minute, while the replicants dress like extras in a Billy Idol video, a post-punk, synth-pop costume party.
  • (5) 479-481 Lisburn Road (028-9066 5655, rocketandrelish.com ) Grub Grub With its generically funky, chunky modish design and its neat green and white colour scheme, you could easily mistake this takeaway cafe for a slick chain, and walk on by.
  • (6) In the late 20s, Morell had grown a thriving private practice in Berlin, his reputation built on the modish vitamin injections he liked to give his patients.
  • (7) The queue is not for a modish nightclub but for a restaurant.
  • (8) He was impressed by the part of Ed Miliband's conference speech about business "predators", but he doesn't have this modish interest in the evils of business, big or small.
  • (9) President François Hollande gives election addresses daubed in the tricolour, while even modish Podemos rallies fizz with a patriotic determination.
  • (10) The powerful sense of isolation a bewildered 21st century idiot attempts to stave off by bragging about his or her witless exploits on social networks, accompanying each boast with a modish hashtag.
  • (11) And that's because I thought I should do a bit of modish, spurious social anthropology on our trade.
  • (12) • 16 Parliament St, porterhousebrewco.com , Oyster Stout €4.50 Oskars, Waterford The outside of this bar may not dazzle you but it's a friendly place to drink – with modish striped banquettes, a curved (and rare) outdoor seating area and a den with games and beanbags for the kids.
  • (13) Perhaps it is only a matter of time before Mary Berry , a woman with decades of baking expertise under her modish little Wallis belt, erupts in a similar boiling rage at the blithe attitudes held by some contestants towards convention.
  • (14) The space itself is a huge, dimly lit bar-restaurant, modishly decked out: not least with moody, black-and-white images shot by Christopher Martin along the route that the Giro d’Italia took when it visited Northern Ireland in 2014.
  • (15) Her exclamation indicates that the Eltons are behaving in an unusual, perhaps modish, manner.
  • (16) Today the most modish explanation of the king's maladies is Kell's disease.

Mopish


Definition:

  • (a.) Dull; spiritless; dejected.

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