Definition of "mopery" []

• Violation of an imaginary or trivial law (noun)

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• "In Robert Bloch’s short story "The Unforgivable Sin", mopery is the titular indiscretion"
• "To him, plagiarism was what Trout would have called a mopery, ‘indecent exposure in the presence of a blind person of the same sex.’"
• "Funny since all of them should be locked up for aggravated mopery."