sulky
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This is all so he can coddle his sulky, wild teenage son while expecting Carrie to limit all extracurricular cuddles to her adopted kitty, Shoe.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
No sniggering jokes now about princely flings and sulky princesses and body doubles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024
Dr. Ash clearly doesn’t take his son’s career seriously, and in just a few days Jed seems to regress to a kind of sulky adolescence.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
She explained that the malnourished horse was not fit for the amount of exertion demanded of him by sulky racers.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2023
Chess knew it was wrong, but he was glad that she sounded sulky.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Often, Clarence and his neighbors got their workhorses together, attached them to sulkies and trotted them around to see which was fastest.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2011
He drew a second-tier starting position, came from behind a scrambled crush of onrushing sulkies to get clear, then settled down to coast home.
From Time Magazine Archive
The windows had to be boarded over during the racing season: as the sulkies sailed by on the oval track across the way, workmen dropped their tools to watch.
From Time Magazine Archive
As an indigenous U. S. pastime, harness racing to sulkies began about 100 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the horses and shabby, or new and brightly-painted carts, sulkies, and buggies of Fallen Star and the Three Mile were there; and buggies from Warria, Langi-Eumina, and the river stations as well.
From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
Most of the so-called Musketeers I spoke to came from Twitter, their central battleground, usually after they replied to one of Musk’s sulkier tweets.
From The Verge ● Jun. 26, 2018
The producers first hoped to cast Ryan Gosling, but he would have made Christian sulkier, more brooding, more Heathcliff.
From Time ● Feb. 12, 2015
And he half knew that it wasn't a success and then became sulkier and more awkward than ever.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
At Cannon Street Station the stranger looked sulkier than Nina had ever seen him.
From Man and Maid by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
Sid's face had become a shade sulkier than before.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The sulkiest tree that I know is the silver beech.
From Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals by Butler, Samuel
Poker's bosom friend, Dumps, was so named because he had the sulkiest expression of countenance that ever fell to the lot of a dog.
From The World of Ice by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
It was the sulkiest hour of the day.
From South Wind by Douglas, Norman
Poker’s bosom friend, Dumps, was so named because he had the sulkiest expression of countenance that ever fell to the lot of a dog.
From The World of Ice by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
A delicious salty air, like the breath of perpetual spring, blew in, tingling the skin of the sulkiest adventurer with delight in this virgin world.
From Heroes of the Middle West The French by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
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