sulky
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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
A sulky is a small cart on two wheels attached to the back of the horse which will accommodate one or two people.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2023
He remembered how, months into trying to get pregnant the first time, she began to say with sulky righteousness, “All my friends who lived very rough lives are pregnant.”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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 faint cloud of dust, raised by hoofs and wheels, lengthened and faded as the sulkies drew apart.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each one of them put on colorful racing silks designed by Cassini and then climbed into harness sulkies.
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
Sid's face had become a shade sulkier than before.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
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
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
It was the sulkiest hour of the day.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
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