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- noun Plural form of
sulkiness .
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Examples
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The climate of England has been shamefully maligned; its sulkinesses and asperities are not nearly so offensive as Englishmen tell us (their climate being the only attribute of their country which they never overvalue); and the really good summer weather is the very kindest and sweetest that the world knows.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various
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But they did not for that desist from their little hostilities and sulkinesses; only there were no more familiarities between them; they were silent.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905
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