All 10 Uses of
sulk
in
Arrowsmith
- Though he had come in sulky unwillingness, he was impressed by the supper, by the frocks of the young women; he realized that his dancing was rusty, and he envied the senior who could do the new waltz called the "Boston."
Chpt 5sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- Her sulky blue uniform was gone; she was childishly slim and light in a princess frock that was a straight line from high collar and soft young breast to her feet.†
Chpt 6
- Angus and Leora kept up a high-strung chatter, while Martin stalked beside them, silent, sulky, proud of being sulky.†
Chpt 7
- Angus and Leora kept up a high-strung chatter, while Martin stalked beside them, silent, sulky, proud of being sulky.†
Chpt 7
- Martin was half minded to desert with them, and he went in sulkily.†
Chpt 17
- By the time Martin sulkily felt that he must apologize, the car was gone.
Chpt 24 *sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
- Wickett often worked all night; he was to be seen in shirt-sleeves, his sulky red hair rumpled, sitting with a stop-watch before a constant temperature bath for hours.†
Chpt 26
- Sulkily, "Oh, come in!"†
Chpt 35
- The reporters, who had been only a little interested at his landing, came around for interviews, and while Martin was sulky and jerky Holabird took them in hand, so that the papers were able to announce that America, which was always rescuing the world from something or other, had gone and done it again.†
Chpt 36
- They faced Holabird in his office, sulkily, rather childishly, and they demanded the expenditure of at least ten thousand dollars for monkeys.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(sulk) to be overly unhappy and unsociable -- often due to disappointment or a sense of not getting what was deserved