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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | huffish |
| Derivation | sulk, sulkiness |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | sluggish |
sulky::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | horse-drawn vehicle |
Examples of sulky
sulky
Your teenager is acting like a teenager, rude, sulky, dismissive and unpleasant.
From the guardian.co.uk
A sulky young woman slouches by the pumps, surreally next to a donkey and a llama.
From the guardian.co.uk
Frank Milby is back in the sulky again and this filly might find another gear.
From the inrich.com
What season of debauchery brought the sulky thrust to this beauty's lower lip?
From the time.com
My cat, Emily, tends to get a bit sulky when I leave her for long periods of time.
From the scienceblogs.com
If she's not insecure and sharp-tongued, she's prone to extended sulky spells.
From the npr.org
His eyes are banked fires set in a sulky sullen face a trifle mangled by time.
From the time.com
Life in my household was always tense and sulky, and, now and then, explosive.
From the npr.org
It's also fun rather than having that sulky bottom lip glumness of previous albums.
From the nzherald.co.nz
- A light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse
- Huffish: sullen or moody
- Sluggish: moving slowly; "a sluggish stream"
- Glooming: depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
- (sulkily) in a sulky manner; "`What else could I do?' said Graham sulkily"
- (sulkiness) sulk: a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal; "stayed home in a sulk"
- (sulkiness) a feeling of sulky resentment
- (sulkiness) a sullen moody resentful disposition
- A sulky is a lightweight cart having two wheels and a seat for the driver only but usually without a body, generally pulled by horses or dogs, and is used for harness races. ...
