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This is all so he can coddle his sulky, wild teenage son while expecting Carrie to limit all extracurricular cuddles to her adopted kitty, Shoe.

From Salon ● May 29, 2025

No sniggering jokes now about princely flings and sulky princesses and body doubles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

Dr. Ash clearly doesn’t take his son’s career seriously, and in just a few days Jed seems to regress to a kind of sulky adolescence.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

Nobody knows quite how far back sulky racing goes in Ireland, but it's probably at least 200 years old.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2023

In her dealings with him she was very bossy and businesslike, treating him in much the same way she handled her kindergarten pupils; he responded in kind, alternately wheedling, affectionate, or sulky.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Often, Clarence and his neighbors got their workhorses together, attached them to sulkies and trotted them around to see which was fastest.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2011

Each one of them put on colorful racing silks designed by Cassini and then climbed into harness sulkies.

From Time Magazine Archive

A faint cloud of dust, raised by hoofs and wheels, lengthened and faded as the sulkies drew apart.

From Time Magazine Archive

The windows had to be boarded over during the racing season: as the sulkies sailed by on the oval track across the way, workmen dropped their tools to watch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even sportsmen were glad to seize upon them, and wheels of sulkies, provided with the pneumatic tires, have enabled them to lower the record of trotting horses.

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

Most of the so-called Musketeers I spoke to came from Twitter, their central battleground, usually after they replied to one of Musk’s sulkier tweets.

From The Verge ● Jun. 26, 2018

The producers first hoped to cast Ryan Gosling, but he would have made Christian sulkier, more brooding, more Heathcliff.

From Time ● Feb. 12, 2015

And he half knew that it wasn't a success and then became sulkier and more awkward than ever.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

While Rasselwitz grew continually sulkier and charier of his words, and at last became downright sleepy, Tausdorf's spirits were more and more awakened and joyful.

From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Carl Franz van der Velde

Never was a fête given by a sulkier host than King Otho that day proved to be.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various

A delicious salty air, like the breath of perpetual spring, blew in, tingling the skin of the sulkiest adventurer with delight in this virgin world.

From Heroes of the Middle West The French by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

The sulkiest tree that I know is the silver beech. 

From Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals by Samuel Butler

Poker's bosom friend, Dumps, was so named because he had the sulkiest expression of countenance that ever fell to the lot of a dog.

From The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Well, I should say you did," she sighed in mock heroism, "why, you are the crossest, and crankiest and sulkiest patient it was ever a woman's misfortune to nurse.

From Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense by [pseud.] Vera

"Have a care of the poor brute, friend!" he cried genially to Diccon, whose looks were of the sulkiest.

From To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston