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Sulkiness

noun
1.
A mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal.  Synonym: sulk.
2.
A feeling of sulky resentment.  Synonym: huffishness.
3.
A sullen moody resentful disposition.  Synonyms: moroseness, sourness, sullenness.






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"Sulkiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... never ceased to deplore confidentially to the General the unfortunate education of her nieces; while the Baroness, on her side, lost no opportunity of holding up in bold relief the emptiness, impertinence, and sulkiness of young ...
— Monsieur de Camors, Complete • Octave Feuillet

... Sulkiness, one of the characteristics of the girls and boys, develops into surliness in men and billingsgate in women. And I have no doubt that little Diega, the sulkiest and prettiest of the Visayan beauties, in a few years will be gambling ...
— The Great White Tribe in Filipinia • Paul T. Gilbert

... that his administration of the War Office was not a success. In all important matters of strategy he shifted his ground from obstinacy to sulkiness, yielding where he should not have yielded at all, and yielding grudgingly where to yield without the whole heart was fatal to success: in the end he was among the drifters, "something between a hindrance ...
— The Mirrors of Downing Street - Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster • Harold Begbie



Words linked to "Sulkiness" :   rancour, temper, resentment, humor, humour, rancor, bitterness, sulk, gall, ill nature, sourness, sulky, mood



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