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Sulkiness

noun
1.
A mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal.  Synonym: sulk.
2.
A feeling of sulky resentment.  Synonym: huffishness.
3.
A sullen moody resentful disposition.  Synonyms: moroseness, sourness, sullenness.






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"Sulkiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... personal violence or immoderate anger extremely rare among them; and one may sit in a hut for a whole day, and never observe an angry word or look, except in driving out the dogs. If they take an offence, it is more common for them to show it by the more quiet method of sulkiness, and this they now and then tried as a matter of experiment with us. Okotook, who was often in this humour, once displayed it to some of our gentlemen in his own hut, by turning his back and frequently repeating the expression "good-by," ...
— Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the • Sir William Edward Parry

... John followed him. The jailer locked the gate carefully, then he turned, followed by Roland and the Englishman in turn. The latter was beginning to get accustomed to his young friend's erratic character. The spleen he saw in Roland was misanthropy, without the sulkiness of Timon or ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere

... Her fits of sulkiness came over her either when the tricks played were too violent, or when M. le Grand abused her. He thought, very properly, that a person who bore the name of Lorraine should not put herself so much on the footing ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon



Words linked to "Sulkiness" :   bitterness, resentment, humour, sulk, moroseness, sulky, rancour, huffishness, rancor, ill nature, gall, humor, temper, sullenness, mood



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