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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



... friends, but his life was one perpetual succession of reckless schemes and bitter quarrels, in which his Royal master was often involved. He fought at Worcester, but his arrogance prompted him to demand the generalship of the army, and he resented the King's refusal by boyish sulkiness. In 1658, he again returned to England, and married the daughter of Fairfax; but this was in defiance of Cromwell, from whose vengeance he was probably saved only by the Protector's death. He was restored to his vast possessions ...
— The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon V2 • Henry Craik
... with a trifle less of sulkiness in his manner, took a step forward and relapsed once more. A little silence seemed to catch them all, broken ...
— The White Riband - A Young Female's Folly • Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse


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


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