NOUN
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a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal
stayed home in a sulk - a feeling of sulky resentment
- a sullen moody resentful disposition
How To Use sulkiness In A Sentence
- Terms & Expressions: la bouderie (f) = sulkiness, (fit of the) sulks bouder quelqu'un = to refuse to have anything to do with someone avoir des succès de boudoir = to be successful with women un boudoir = a private sitting room; also a finger-shaped cookie or cake known in English as a "ladyfinger French Word-A-Day:
- Terms & Expressions: la bouderie (f) = sulkiness, (fit of the) sulks bouder quelqu'un = to refuse to have anything to do with someone avoir des succès de boudoir = to be successful with women un boudoir = a private sitting room; also a finger-shaped cookie or cake known in English as a "ladyfinger French Word-A-Day:
- She looked the personification of pre-adolescent sulkiness, which perhaps explains the star quality she has for girls aged seven to 10.
- He was shrewd enough to guess that the only way to cure her sulkiness was to outsulk her; but there was no sign of her presence in any direction; and the canoes being finished at last, the gold, and such provisions as they could collect, were placed on board, and one evening the party prepared for their fresh voyage. Westward Ho!
