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

She explained that the malnourished horse was not fit for the amount of exertion demanded of him by sulky racers.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2023

He didn’t want to but she insisted, and he retreated to a sulky silence.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

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

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

Houghton Sulky Co. of Marion, Ohio, specializes in horse-show buggies and racing sulkies, do not make ordinary "top" buggies.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the early-morning hour, the trotters were out exercising too, pulling balloon-tired practice sulkies, passing the two-legged runner in a flurry of neighs, snorts and hooves.

From Time Magazine Archive

The crawlers about these parts nowadays toddle about on bikes or sit like great-grandfathers in sulkies, an' if it was to sprinkle they'd think half a mile too far to go to see their sweetheart.

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Franklin, Miles

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

But if he won't try he won't, and the more you fight him the sulkier he'll get.

From Thoroughbreds by Fraser, William Alexander

Edmund looked sulkier and more futile than usual, even, and the cigarette that dropped from his trimmed and polished hand had a positively insolent angle.

From The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

It was the sulkiest hour of the day.

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman

A stopped clock has the sulkiest face in the world.

From The Extra Day by Blackwood, Algernon

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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

"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 Johnston, Mary

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 Catherwood, Mary Hartwell