sulky

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

Instead, America was treated to a series of photos of him looking like a sulky child in court, accompanied by reports that he acted like a fidgeting, impatient toddler throughout the proceedings.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2023

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

He could feel his lower lip start to jut out, like he was just a sulky little kid.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Twelve sulkies pulled by seven colts, two geldings and three fillies circled on Goshen's drying track in systematic confusion for the start of the first heat.

From Time Magazine Archive

After World War II, when harness racing caught the public eye, and horse-players learned to tolerate the nighttime trots, Little Joe and his string built a reputation wherever standard-bred horses drew sulkies.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Such a concourse ne'er was seen Of coaches, noddies, cars, and jingles, "Chars-a-bancs," to hold sixteen, And "sulkies," meant to carry singles.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever

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

Upon him Fleming turned a fire of sly chaff; which had the effect of rendering Bracebrydge sulkier than ever, and Bracebrydge sulky was not a pleasant fellow by any means.

From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Bertram Mitford

Everything inside the house limp, languid, and lugubrious; the fires are sulky and won’t burn; the maids are sulkier still.

From Nearly Lost but Dearly Won by Theodore P. Wilson

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

It was the sulkiest hour of the day.

From South Wind by Norman Douglas

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

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

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