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Sulky

adjective
(compar. sulkier; superl. sulkiest)
1.
Sullen or moody.  Synonym: huffish.
2.
Moving slowly.  Synonym: sluggish.
3.
Depressingly dark.  Synonyms: gloomful, glooming, gloomy.  "The glooming interior of an old inn" , "'gloomful' is archaic"
noun
(pl. sulkies)
1.
A light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse.





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"Sulky" Quotes from Famous Books



... sulky Mr. Fuzz, and on trundled the ambulance till a golden green rose-beetle was discovered, lying on his back kicking as if in ...
— A Modern Cinderella - or The Little Old Show and Other Stories • Louisa May Alcott
... compliment," she said quietly, "for it shows at least that I am never sulky. Well, Don Harry, do you accept me ...
— The Treasure of the Incas • G. A. Henty
... quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. He said nothing, but looked dull, not to say sulky. ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... meeting, and he contrasted to-day's emptiness of the long sheds with the crowding vehicles of his childhood memories. In those days so tightly were buggies and surries and democrats, and even spring wagons and an occasional sulky wedged into the space, that it was nothing unusual for the sermon to be interrupted by an uproar in the sheds, when some peevish horse attempted to set its teeth in the neck of a neighbor, with a resultant squealing and plunging, a cramping of wheels and a rattle ...
— John Wesley, Jr. - The Story of an Experiment • Dan B. Brummitt
... not believed that his father was in jail; but the outraged gentleman who had demanded the writ of habeas corpus was, beyond question, Samuel J. Deering, head of the banking-house of Deering, Gaylord & Co. Mr. Deering was striding toward his bench with the sulky droop of a premium batter who has struck out with the ...
— The Madness of May • Meredith Nicholson


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