sulkyadjective
uk/ˈsʌlk.i/us/ˈsʌlk.i/refusing to smile or be pleasant to people, usually because you are angry about something:
She brought along a couple of sulky kids who didn't say a word the whole time.
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Moods
- -humoured
- be in one of your moods idiom
- black mood
- eat
- frame
- have a strop on idiom
- mind
- sb's state/frame of mind idiom
- snit
- spirit
- strop
- suck
- temper
- temperament
- temperamental
- temperature
- tone
- up and down idiom
- what's eating sb? idiom
- yourself
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sulkily
adverb uk/ˈsʌlk.ɪ.li//ˈsʌlk.ɪ.li/
She replied sulkily that she had no interest at all in going with them.
sulkiness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈsʌlk.i.nəs/us/ˈsʌlk.i.nəs/