All 14 Uses
sulk
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Sons and Lovers
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- His narrow black eyebrows were drawn up in a sort of peevish misery into his forehead while his cheeks' down-strokes, and his sulky mouth, seemed to be saying: "I don't care who you are nor what you are, I SHALL have my own way."†
Chpt 1.1sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- He lay and suffered like a sulking dog.†
Chpt 1.2
- As she meditated, at about nine o'clock, he opened the door and came in, slinking, and yet sulky.†
Chpt 1.2
- "You may thank your stars I've come back to-night," he said, looking up from under his dropped head, sulkily, trying to be impressive.†
Chpt 1.2 *sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
- Clara, walking with a kind of sulky abandon, watched it half-fascinated, half-contemptuous.†
Chpt 2.9sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- He sat down sulkily.†
Chpt 2.9sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
- He, with ruffled hair, was sulking upon the sofa.†
Chpt 2.9sulking = overly unhappy and unsociable
- She drooped sulkily.†
Chpt 2.12sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
- He's just sulking, or he'd be a lot better than he is by now.†
Chpt 2.14sulking = overly unhappy and unsociable
- There he lies and sulks, day in, day out.†
Chpt 2.14sulks = is overly unhappy and unsociable
- As the doctor said, he was lying sulking, and would not move forward towards convalescence.†
Chpt 2.14sulking = overly unhappy and unsociable
- He seems to be sulking.†
Chpt 2.14
- Something felt sulky, as if it would not rouse.†
Chpt 2.15
- "Marry whom?" came the sulky question.†
Chpt 2.15
Definitions:
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(1)
(sulk) to be overly unhappy and unsociable -- often due to disappointment or a sense of not getting what was deserved
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)