sulks

Inkling sulks in the laundry basket the rest of the evening.

“One can always be the little ugly duckling who sulks in the corner. We know we’ll have lots of those,” the police chief said.

He allows her into the family home as he sulks, and defends her presence to his irate sister: “I am not putting my donkey outside when I am sad, okay?” he says.

He doesn’t say so, exactly, but he sulks if I try to wear them.

And as he goes off and sulks at being denied, she coaxes him back.