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
They lost one to the Beatles which might explain the sulky look here.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 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
He didn’t want to but she insisted, and he retreated to a sulky silence.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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
Harness racing has dozens who jounce their old bones in old bright -varnished sulkies on Grand Circuit trotting tracks every summer.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few minutes before the sulkies were brought out, the celebrities all stood around in the darkness of the paddock area in tight little pockets with their friends.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Until turnpike days all small carriages were two-wheeled; chaises, chairs, and sulkies were those generally used.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
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
He looks sulkier than I’vsquo;ve ever seen any one—sulkier than I’ve ever dreamed possible.
From Man and Maid by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Did you ever see a sulkier fire than that?
From Armadale by Wilkie Collins
A stopped clock has the sulkiest face in the world.
From The Extra Day by Algernon Blackwood
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
"Have a care of the poor brute, friend!" he cried genially to Diccon, whose looks were of the sulkiest.
From To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston
It was the sulkiest hour of the day.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
Well, I should say you did," she sighed in mock heroism, "why, you are the crossest, and crankiest and sulkiest patient it was ever a woman's misfortune to nurse.
From Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense by [pseud.] Vera
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