sulk


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Synonyms for sulk

be sullen

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Synonyms for sulk

to be sullenly aloof or withdrawn, as in silent resentment or protest

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Synonyms for sulk

a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal

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be in a huff and display one's displeasure

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A soft dog that sulks if you raise your voice or a hard dog that defies you at every command and resists corrections no matter how high you turn up the e-collar juice?
HARLEQUINS captain Chris Robshaw may have sulked and turned to junk food for comfort after being omitted from England's World Cup squad - but his response could not have been more emphatic.
At least you'll know where you stand if she sulks at that.
Edward Heath went into a long sulk when replaced by Margaret Thatcher
Before his 1997 suicide, out Scottish singer Billy MacKenzie cut the startling 1982 new-wave classic Sulk (with his band Associates), cowrote Shirley Bassey's "The Rhythm Divine," and filled U.K.
Callaway of the Sulk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif.
Too big to play hop-on-pop with his little siblings, too small to go hiking with his big brother, but always called upon to do middle-sized chores such as baby sitting, he decides enough is enough and runs to his hideout to sulk. But his family truly loves him, and engineers a surprise to show just how much.
It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from the gaps where the creeks and winds pour down, saying, I never merited this grace, quite rightly, and then to sulk along the rest of your days on the edge of rage.
But you've probably neverheard of 15-year-old Daphne Sulk, who was stabbed to death by her 38-year-old boyfriend after he got her pregnant.
And I know so well that I have no right to sulk and complain about that worksheet due for art history class tomorrow morning while those 200,000 dead are so gravely silent about their grievances--which must, I would think, be many.
Then, if they don't get what they want, they throw a tantrum, stalk off, slam doors, lock themselves in and sulk.
Obviously, he takes no interest in the house but I bet once the conservatory is up and he comes out of his sulk, he'll be the one sat in there with his newspaper.
"The only one they would sulk with is me, for making the decision.
What is it with French players refusing to play and going in a sulk when they don't get their own way, such as Ben Arfa, N'Zogbia and Gomis to name a few?