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sulking
adjective as in sulky
adjective as in sullen
Weak matches
- bad-tempered
- cheerless
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- cynical
- dismal
- dull
- fretful
- frowning
- glowering
- gruff
- heavy
- ill-humored
- inert
- irritable
- malevolent
- malicious
- malign
- mean
- moody
- obstinate
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- perverse
- pessimistic
- pouting
- pouty
- querulous
- saturnine
- silent
- sour
- sourpussed
- stubborn
- sulky
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- unsociable
- uptight
Example Sentences
Old times, where Ramirez was often accused of quitting on his team, sulking and not putting out his full effort, were forgotten.
Zack Snyder tweeted a photo of Ben Affleck as Batman, sulking next to the Batmobile.
Far from sulking, Britain was actually very eager to get out of India.
Call him sulking or call him certain, Bill Clinton almost tore his own party in half rather than admit defeat.
One day last week, when the mercury was sulking at zero, three lambs arrived on the place.
If, as has been said, a man cuts a ridiculous figure when he is sulking, my appearance must have been truly laughable.
He did not intend to be herded into the gloomy company of a lot of beaten and sulking Welsh nationalists!
The upper classes were either helpless and sulking, or helpless and smiling artificially.
It should not be inferred that the non-commissioned giant went sulking about his work.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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