sulky
She is throwing things around out of sulkiness.
Swimming seemed to have washed away his sulkiness.
I felt helpless in the face of my own infantile bad temper and sulkiness.

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 sulkiness

sulkiness
Here the most common demonstration of temperament is sulkiness on a heavy damp day.
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He now became bright and pleasant and had lost all irritability and sulkiness.
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This caused the woman to accuse her of sulkiness, at which the girl looked up with swollen eyes, full of tears.
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Quite analogous to this is sulkiness that occasionally appears.
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Sulkiness at being thus thwarted replaced her earlier attempt at amenability.
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The scent was warm enough to cure his sulkiness.
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There will be no use in sulkiness, in laziness, in inattention.
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The girls had relapsed into sulkiness, the stage-manager's temper was ruffled.
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He is scarcely ever impertinent now: when he is it is always in good-nature and never in sulkiness.
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But they did not for that desist from their little hostilities and sulkinesses; only there were no more familiarities between them; they were silent.
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It turns me from bright to black, from lightness of spirits to extreme sulkiness.
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That meanest of all vices, the vice of sulkiness, had no existence in her nature.
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Long before the train came he lapsed into his natural blue sulkiness, remaining as quiet behind his auger hole as one ready for the grave.
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The girl's eyes flew wider and hotter shame for her sulkiness stained her cheeks.
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Then a sudden sulkiness brought down the corners of her lips.
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