All 10 Uses of
sulk
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Nicholas Nickleby
- 'Half-past three,' muttered Mr Squeers, turning from the window, and looking sulkily at the coffee-room clock.†
Chpt 4sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
- 'A sulky state of feeling,' said Squeers, after a terrible pause, during which he had moistened the palm of his right hand again, 'won't do.
Chpt 8 *sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.†
Chpt 15
- 'I am not to be brought round in that way, always,' rejoined Madame, sulkily.†
Chpt 17sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
- Haven't I been sounding your praises in her ears, and bearing her pretty sulks and peevishness all night for you?†
Chpt 27sulks = is overly unhappy and unsociable
- With which confession of his faith, the keeper shook his head again, as much as to say that nothing short of this would do, if things were to go on at all; and touching his hat sulkily—not that he was in an ill humour, but that his subject ruffled him—descended the ladder, and took it away.†
Chpt 41sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
- 'I wish I was a parrot,' Newman, sulkily.†
Chpt 44
- 'Well,' retorted Newman, sulkily, 'don't expect me to know him too; that's all.'
Chpt 51
- 'Don't you complain of the expense afterwards,' said Mrs Sliderskew, sulkily.†
Chpt 53
- 'Why, your man, your informing kidnapping man, has been and broke it,' rejoined Squeers sulkily; 'that's what's the matter with it.†
Chpt 60
Definition:
to be overly unhappy and unsociable -- often due to disappointment or a sense of not getting what was deserved