All 12 Uses of
sulk
in
Bleak House
- "If you would like," said Mrs. Jellyby, putting a number of papers towards us, "to look over some remarks on that head, and on the general subject, which have been extensively circulated, while I finish a letter I am now dictating to my eldest daughter, who is my amanuensis—" The girl at the table left off biting her pen and made a return to our recognition, which was half bashful and half sulky.†
Chpt 4-6sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- "Good night!" she said very sulkily.†
Chpt 4-6sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
- "Good night!" said I. "May I come in?" she shortly and unexpectedly asked me in the same sulky way.†
Chpt 4-6sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- I may mention that Miss Jellyby had relapsed into her sulky manner and that I really should not have thought she liked me much unless she had told me so.
Chpt 4-6 *
- On my pointing out the great impropriety of the word, especially in connexion with his parent (for he added sulkily "By her!"†
Chpt 7-9sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
- The children sulked and stared; the family took no notice of us whatever, except when the young man made the dog bark, which he usually did when Mrs. Pardiggle was most emphatic.†
Chpt 7-9sulked = was overly unhappy and unsociable
- With which she presented it sulkily enough.†
Chpt 13-15sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
- We found him engaged with a not very hopeful pupil—a stubborn little girl with a sulky forehead, a deep voice, and an inanimate, dissatisfied mama—whose case was certainly not rendered more hopeful by the confusion into which we threw her preceptor.†
Chpt 22-24sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- Therefore he sulkily supposes that the young man must come up into the library.†
Chpt 31-33sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
- Nay, even oil itself, yet lingering at long intervals in a little absurd glass pot, with a knob in the bottom like an oyster, blinks and sulks at newer lights every night, like its high and dry master in the House of Lords.†
Chpt 46-48sulks = is overly unhappy and unsociable
- The other woman rose on seeing me; and the men, though they were, as usual, sulky and silent, each gave me a morose nod of recognition.†
Chpt 55-57sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- She went last night," he answered with a sulky jerk of his head.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
to be overly unhappy and unsociable -- often due to disappointment or a sense of not getting what was deserved