All 3 Uses of
sulk
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- With one phrase he had turned happy picknickers into a sulky, tense, murmuring crowd, being slowly hypnotized by gavel taps lessening in intensity until the only sound in the courtroom was a dim pink-pink-pink: the judge might have been rapping the bench with a pencil.†
p. 197.7sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- Mrs. Merriweather faced Mrs. Farrow: "Gertrude, I tell you there's nothing more distracting than a sulky darky."
p. 264.9sulky = withdrawn and overly indulging in a sad mood
- ...sulky… dissatisfied… I tell you if my Sophy'd kept it up another day I'd have let her go.
p. 266.1 *
Definition:
to be overly unhappy and unsociable -- often due to disappointment or a sense of not getting what was deserved