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She was disappointed and retreated to her room to sulk.sulk = to overly indulge in being unhappy and unsociable
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She sulked for the rest of the week when she learned she would not make the starting team.sulked = was excessively unhappy and unsociable
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Rather than respond in a positive way, she retreated into a self-destructive sulk.sulk = a mood that is excessively unhappy and unsociable
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If she tried, he'd argue and wheedle and sulk and bully and plain wear her down. (source)sulk = be overly unhappy and unsociable
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Even after Julia and her father leave, I try to keep sulking. But it's no use. Gorillas are not, by nature, pouters. (source)sulking = being overly upset and sad
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I know one girl at home who gets so irritated when she can't bother you, she just ends up sulking. (source)sulking = being overly unhappy and unsociable
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...sulky… dissatisfied… I tell you if my Sophy'd kept it up another day I'd have let her go. (source)sulky = withdrawn and overly indulging in a sad mood
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Olive Hornby came into the bathroom — Are you in here again, sulking, Myrtle?' she said, 'because Professor Dippet asked me to look for you —' (source)sulking = overly unhappy and unsociable
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Winston looked at the thing sulkily and without interest. (source)sulkily = in the manner of someone overly indulging in an unhappy mood
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But the azaleas and rosebushes next to the house sulked in weeds.† (source)sulked = was overly unhappy and unsociable
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"I'll make you something else," Khanum Taheri would say, but he'd ignore her, sulk, and eat bread and onion.† (source)sulk = to be overly unhappy and unsociable
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Here, too, comes his owner, cheerful, sombre, gracious or in the sulks, accordingly as his scheme of the now accomplished voyage has been realized in merchandise that will readily be turned to gold, or has buried him under a bulk of incommodities such as nobody will care to rid him of. (source)sulks = a bad mood characterized by being withdrawn and unhappy
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I wish there may not be a little sulkiness of temper—her poor mother had a good deal; but we must make allowances for such a child—and I do not know that her being sorry to leave her home is really against her, for, with all its faults, it was her home, and she cannot as yet understand how much she has changed for the better; but then there is moderation in all things. (source)sulkiness = excessive unhappiness and not being very sociablestandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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I meant to, after awhile—but I was sulky and angry and I wanted to punish him first. (source)sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
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This last measure is the reason for Dussel's sulking. (source)sulking = being overly unhappy and unsociable
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"Then--it's all off?" Candy asked sulkily. (source)sulkily = in an excessively disappointed and unhappy manner
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