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  • noun plural The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor.

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  • noun Plural form of sulk.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sulk.

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Examples

  • He saddled Keno, and rode away in that silent preoccupation which the boys called the sulks for want of a better understanding of it.

    Good Indian B. M. Bower 1905

  • To begin with, the _predicant_ was sulky because I had cut him short in his address, and a holy man in the sulks is a bad kind of animal to deal with.

    Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • To be sure, he has a good temper; and I must say for him he never goes into the sulks, which is a comfort, for of all things in the world sulking is the most childish and contemptible.

    The Young Fur Traders 1859

  • To be sure, he has a good temper; and I must say for him he never goes into the sulks, which is a comfort, for of all things in the world sulking is the most childish and contemptible.

    The Young Fur Traders 1859

  • We're having a pool party tomorrow night and, well, Abby just kind of sulks around when she doesn't want to be here.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Sometimes it "sulks" for so protracted a period that danger seems to be over.

    The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • In the meantime my Mother waited about half an hour, expecting my return when the "sulks" had evaporated.

    Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • In Sissies, Davis retreats to her dressing room, sulks and banters with the audience about her Hollywood journey.

    Joshua Kors: Q&A With Jessica Sherr, Star of Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies Joshua Kors 2011

  • In Sissies, Davis retreats to her dressing room, sulks and banters with the audience about her Hollywood journey.

    Joshua Kors: Q&A With Jessica Sherr, Star of Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies Joshua Kors 2011

  • The important thing is that there have been probably half a dozen of these hairdryer-type moments, give or take, over the last eight years as chief executive but he never sulks.

    Football news in brief 2011

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