sulky

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

Instead, America was treated to a series of photos of him looking like a sulky child in court, accompanied by reports that he acted like a fidgeting, impatient toddler throughout the proceedings.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2023

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

First Johnny, with a customary ‘Look sharp,’ got the sulky Dove and his buckets headed for North Square.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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

In the draw for positions, important in trotting, Mary Reynolds got third place from the rail in the front row of seven sulkies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Twelve sulkies pulled by seven colts, two geldings and three fillies circled on Goshen's drying track in systematic confusion for the start of the first heat.

From Time Magazine Archive

As an indigenous U. S. pastime, harness racing to sulkies began about 100 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were leaning elbows on the fence below the grand stand, watching desultorily the endless preparatory manoeuvres of three men astride the hind legs of three pacers in sulkies.

From The Happy Family by B. M. Bower

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

I see Lou's arm rise 'n' fall a couple of times at the start 'n' ole Friendless finished fifth, his ears laid back, sulkier 'n a grass widow at a married men's picnic.

From Blister Jones by Jay Hambridge

At Cannon Street Station the stranger looked sulkier than Nina had ever seen him.

From Man and Maid by E. (Edith) Nesbit

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 Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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

It was the sulkiest hour of the day.

From South Wind by Norman Douglas

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

A stopped clock has the sulkiest face in the world.

From The Extra Day by Algernon Blackwood