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pouty
adjective as in sulky
adjective as in sullen
Weak matches
- bad-tempered
- cheerless
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- cynical
- dismal
- dull
- fretful
- frowning
- glowering
- gruff
- heavy
- ill-humored
- inert
- irritable
- malevolent
- malicious
- malign
- mean
- moody
- obstinate
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- perverse
- pessimistic
- pouting
- querulous
- saturnine
- silent
- sour
- sourpussed
- stubborn
- sulking
- sulky
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- unsociable
- uptight
Example Sentences
Bondi’s tired put-downs were so bad that “Saturday Night Live” parodied them over the weekend, with guest host Amy Poehler playing the pouty attorney general.
He helped her land a record deal as a solo act; she remade Robert Hazard’s somewhat pouty “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” — as opposed to getting serious with a guy, the original laments — as a kind of exuberant liberation cry.
Ohtani unironically made a Joe Kelly pouty face.
The problem is with a certain pouty president who can’t get over the fact California voters just aren’t that into him.
Those close to the governor say Newsom is in a much better place now than the pouty, sulky space he occupied in the months after President Biden stepped aside and anointed Harris as his successor.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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