All 4 Uses of
sulk
in
The Idiot
- My mother is always crying, of course, and my sister sulks.†
Chpt 1.3sulks = is overly unhappy and unsociable
- Hippolyte looked dejected and sulky, as well as surprised.†
Chpt 2.9sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- All the other guests stayed on as well; no one wanted to go, not even General Ivolgin, but Lebedeff said something to him in passing which did not seem to please him, for he immediately went and sulked in a corner.†
Chpt 2.9sulked = was overly unhappy and unsociable
- He had several times during those years come up to me and tried to make friends; but I had always turned sulkily away and refused to have anything to do with him.†
Chpt 3.6 *sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
Definition:
to be overly unhappy and unsociable -- often due to disappointment or a sense of not getting what was deserved