Definitions
Etymologies
- sulky + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He came in sulkily, neither saluting the company nor returning their salutations.”
“He continued what Mr. Ridding, watching the group of young people, called sulkily to himself his rigmarole, but continued more abstractedly.”
“This was Michael's first food, for he had sulkily refused to go near the potatoes.”
““Besides,” he added sulkily, “she really, really loved me when I was —.””
“Finally, after we had exhausted ourselves arguing, Li sulkily consented to go back into the wilderness -- followed, I need hardly add, by her watchful mom.”
The Huffington Post: Louis Bayard: A Tiger Mom Shares Her Secrets
“Billy joined sulkily, then brightened up as his eyes chanced upon the coffee pot, which he immediately put on to boil.”
“Alan had joined Buzz at the bar and was sulkily nursing a beer.”
“Had he made his three-score-and-10, I wonder what the great, good fellow would have thought about his lovely uncomplicated game becoming, in the meantime, so angry and malevolent with itself; or how the most valorous of all England captains viewed the sulkily tedious machinations over the captaincy of Signor Capello's current ragbag squad.”
The Guardian: My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating
“She waltzed off into the depths of the art fair, where people were sulkily being ushered by security guards towards the elevators, plastic cups of wine in hand.”
The Huffington Post: Monica Westin: But Is It a Candy Convention?
“Returning to Mexico in disgrace, he sulkily retired to his hacienda.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sulkily’.
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Cold Comfort Farm
From the novel by Stella Gibbons
tyro, bustle, locust years, lambency, mere, berg, fen, bilious, cataclysm, flapdoodle, vulgar, serener and 98 more...
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Poetrie: An Unusual Feast
Poetrie #1. Don't you hate it when your hosts have you over for dinner... literally?
The Walrus and the Carpenter
by Lewis Carroll
The sun was shining on the sea,
Sh...pleasant, streaming, trot, deaf, dismal, chiefly, chat, sealing-wax, conveniently, frothy, odd, oyster-bed and 6 more...
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tom swifties
emphatically, unthinkingly, precariously, meritoriously, unceasingly, coaxingly, fervently, copacetically, sibilantly, laconically, overbearingly, incorrigibly and 66 more...
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sionnach "I like to ride in a horse-drawn carriage", said Tom sulkily. Dec 12, 2007