sulky

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

A sulky is a small horse-drawn cart traditionally used for transport and recreation, but sulky racing is illegal on public roads in Ireland.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2023

Dudley looked furious and sulky, and somehow seemed to be taking up even more space than usual.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

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

He drew a second-tier starting position, came from behind a scrambled crush of onrushing sulkies to get clear, then settled down to coast home.

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 starting line, farther than the eye could see, a hundred thousand people lined up, on saddle horses, light rigs, buck-boards, spring wagons, sulkies.

From Time Magazine Archive

She kept Kentucky well in hand, and yet easily passed buggies, sulkies, runners, men on bicycles, and began to overtake the horsemen galloping southward over the prairie.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady

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

This was done after a bit, and the end of it was ten votes for Starlight and two or three for Moran, who looked savage and sulkier than ever.

From Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields by Rolf Boldrewood

At Cannon Street Station the stranger looked sulkier than Nina had ever seen him.

From Man and Maid by E. (Edith) Nesbit

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

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

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