All 4 Uses of
sulk
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- An impressive barricade of green and gold wheels, of shafts and sulky seats, belonging to machinery of which Carol knew nothing—potato-planters, manure-spreaders, silage-cutters, disk-harrows, breaking-plows.†
Chpt 4sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- "I'll be good," sulkily.†
Chpt 8sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
- Fern wanted to tell her grievances; Carol was sulky every time she thought of "The Girl from Kankakee"; it was Erik who made suggestions.†
Chpt 28 *sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- She found him in the shadow of the grain-elevator, sulkily kicking at a rail of the side-track.†
Chpt 33sulkily = 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