sulky
IPA: sˈʌɫki
noun
- A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.
- Any carriage seating only the driver.
adjective
- (often derogatory) silent and withdrawn after being upset
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Examples of "sulky" in Sentences
- She received it in sulky silence and retired to her room.
- He traveled in a vehicle called a sulky, and I went on horseback.
- I have a disposition variously described as sulky, sour, sarky, or cynical.
- Now, a sulky is a vehicle built to accommodate two people only, and those two people have to sit fairly close together.
- There were many, misled by her petulant lips and watchful eyes, to call her sulky: these did not judge her silence favourably.
- Baron was not the first choice for the lead (Peter Falk was), but he does have a certain sulky presence as cynical hit man Frank Bono.
- Michael's face had clouded with that gloom which his father would certainly call sulky, and for himself he resented the tone of Michael's reply.
- Now the little one had often heard this point explained, but she felt small disposition to give up her knowledge at this demand; so she only looked at Miss Asphyxia in sulky silence.
- My Friends endeavoured to rally me out of this what they called sulky mood; I replied that I could not help it, that I should never again be happy till it was discovered who it was that took my bed-fellow's Money; and that its being lost while I was his bed fellow, certainly threw a sort of suspicion on me, that I could not get over, and to labour under which rendered me completely miserable.
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