sulky
She sighed, and sulkily began to put on her clothes.
"I don't think you want me to get a girlfriend," Stuart sulkily concluded.
He turned his back on the crowd, and stared sulkily across the street.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moods
-humoured
affect
be in one of your moodsidiom
black mood
eat
frame
humour
snit
someone's state/frame of mindidiom
spirit
strop
suck
temper
temperament
temperamentally
temperature
tone
up and downidiom
volatility
yourself

Examples of sulkily

sulkily
His smooth face was flushed, and his hands were thrust sulkily into his trousers' pockets.
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She looked at her chin, and then went back to her book--rather sulkily, he thought.
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He declined assistance rather sulkily, and descended holding by the stair-rail and stepping gingerly.
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The man began to put away his wares sulkily while the girls gathered their belongings together and started for the automobile.
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He picked up the chair he had thrown over, and waited sulkily till the others were in the high-ceilinged living-room before he joined them.
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He was able to pull very hard, and he was also wise enough to rush in under the bank and to sulkily stay there.
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With his long legs dangling he flew swiftly up towards the hill; and halfway there he met the boy wandering about sulkily all alone.
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Instead of going away, he sat down sulkily on one of the hall chairs.
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Whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron or crumbles sulkily away like a fractured arch.
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Turning abruptly, he swam back to the shore and sulkily withdrew into the thickets to seek some less unmanageable quarry.
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The order was sulkily given and as sulkily obeyed.
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She was sitting beside him sulkily on the back bench nearest the door; suddenly she rose and dashed forward in a storm of weeping.
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The more power we put on the more the rollers screamed; and the less we put on, the more sulkily the jade stopped.
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After this, the scene is sulkily resumed; and conversation, when the parties concerned meet subsequently, is cold and strained.
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I agreed, rather sulkily, and the meal went off well enough.
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