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- adjective
comparative form ofsulky : moresulky
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Examples
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Scene 6: I become a sulky adolescent and have an even sulkier burgeoning sexuality.
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Scene 6: I become a sulky adolescent and have an even sulkier burgeoning sexuality.
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One of our cats occasionally suffers from eosinophilic granuloma, which manifests itself in a very swollen lip making him look sulkier than usual.
Poor Ferris Calamity Jen 2006
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Starlight and two or three for Moran, who looked savage and sulkier than ever.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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And Mrs. Beetling, growing steadily sulkier and more aggrieved, was now forced to stand and listen to a fierce tirade on the horrors of a foul mouth and foul breath, on the harm done to the digestive system, the ills awaiting her in later life.
Ultima Thule 2003
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And he half knew that it wasn't a success and then became sulkier and more awkward than ever.
The Horse And His Boy Lewis, C S 1954
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And he half knew that it wasn't a success and then became sulkier and more awkward than ever.
The Horse and His Boy Lewis, C. S. 1954
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And the more they talked to one another the sulkier and more suspicious they became.
Prince Caspian Lewis, C. S. 1951
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Never was a fête given by a sulkier host than King Otho that day proved to be.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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Everything _inside_ the house limp, languid, and lugubrious; the fires are sulky and won't burn; the maids are sulkier still.
Nearly Lost but Dearly Won Theodore P. Wilson
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