All 4 Uses of
sulk
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- He was a tall, fat, fair, sulky man, the most dangerous type in such cases.†
Chpt 2sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- He shrank into a corner and sulked there for a week.†
Chpt 3sulked = was overly unhappy and unsociable
- Take the soul of an enlightened Russian atheist and mix it with the soul of the prophet Jonah, who sulked for three days and nights in the belly of the whale, and you get the character of that thinker who lay across the road.†
Chpt 11
- But till that happens I am sulking and fulfill my destiny though it's against the grain—that is, to ruin thousands for the sake of saving one.†
Chpt 11 *sulking = overly unhappy and unsociable
Definition:
to be overly unhappy and unsociable -- often due to disappointment or a sense of not getting what was deserved