sulk
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Kane said Bayern had "no time to sulk" and "would not let the defeat define our season".
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
It comes from the Welsh pwdu, meaning to sulk, which itself originated with the English word pout, combined with the Welsh verb-forming suffix -u.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
Nine months later, after the New Year's Eve party where Joel messes up again by trying to defend Ellie, he excuses himself to sulk with Ellie’s guitar on his porch.
From Salon ● May 19, 2025
Some nights he would sulk if he didn’t get his touches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
Before I could properly sulk about it, the doorbell rang and Pa was smiling and springing up out of his chair.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
"All players want to play, it's normal, it's what makes us happy. I have team-mates who want to play too, but no one sulks," Griezmann told reporters.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025
He doesn’t say so, exactly, but he sulks if I try to wear them.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2022
And as he goes off and sulks at being denied, she coaxes him back.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2022
He rages and sulks; he suffers feeling rejected for reasons he can’t always control.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
How can you celebrate your birthday when you’ve got the sulks, how can you accept gifts from people you won’t even talk to?
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
When I first graduated, I moved back in with my parents and sulked around because I was unemployed and without an internship lined up.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
Some 17-year-olds might have sulked at the prospect of swapping the glamour of the Premier League for games against Grimsby and Peterborough.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
Early in 1779, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sulked back to Salzburg, Austria, having failed to land a permanent job abroad.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
“I sulked for a few hours, it was kind of like a shock,” Ingram said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
I suppose it is to Caroline’s credit that she seldom sulked about this deprivation.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
When Dembele was substituted, he encouraged his replacement rather than sulking.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
So does not sulking when kids don’t invite you on their vacation or forget to send Mother’s Day cards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
“Instead of sulking on, ‘Well, I tried this and it failed, now I don’t know where to go,’ I just used it as positive things, and eventually turned.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
The Mariners lost Sunday, but they weren’t sulking.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
He was dark, and when he wasn’t sulking in silence he would tell me things I really didn’t want to know.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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