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Sulk   /səlk/   Listen
Sulk

noun
1.
A mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal.  Synonym: sulkiness.
verb
1.
Be in a huff and display one's displeasure.  Synonyms: brood, pout.



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"Sulk" Quotes from Famous Books



... externally speckless, but somehow or other she had no clothes-brush at home. This deficiency did not matter ordinarily, for she practically lived at Milly's. But when she had words with Milly or her husband, she retired to her own house to sulk or schmull, as they called it. The carrying away of the clothes-brush was, thus, a sign that she considered the breach serious and hostilities likely to be protracted. Sometimes a whole week would go by ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... that if we would take up arms for him against the Yankees, he would send a great army, many thousands, to help us. We believed him, and we took up the hatchet for him. We fought in the dark and the storm with Herkimer at the Oriskany, and many of our warriors fell. But we did not sulk in our lodges. We have ravaged and driven in the whole American border along a line of hundreds of miles. Now the Congress sends an army to attack us, to avenge what we have done, and the great forces of the king are not here. I have been across the sea; ...
— The Scouts of the Valley • Joseph A. Altsheler

... one advantage, for I made it a point of honor to give the lie to it, and did not sulk; but the scene had hurt me too deeply for me to forget it, and now my resentment was fully revived, and grew stronger and stronger while I was telling the story to my aunt. Alas! my almost unconscious second-sight, that of a too sensitive ...
— Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne

... wretched one. If dad was violent out of the house, mother was violent enough in it; with her it was rage, sulk, storm, from morning till night; till one day father turned a deaf ear to mother and died in his bed. That was my first intimate experience of the horrible curse that falls upon ...
— The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith • Arthur Wing Pinero

... know, old fellow. If you did you'd be with him. There, go and lie down. I daresay he's gone into the woods to sulk ...
— Marcus: the Young Centurion • George Manville Fenn


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