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Meanings of sulky in English

Depressingly dark.

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Sullen or moody.

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Moving slowly.

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Examples for "sluggish"
1
Our main market, in Britain, remains sluggish, reflecting difficult economic conditions there.
The Irish Times
2
Italy needs to attract foreign investment to help reinvigorate its sluggish economy.
Reuters
3
Currently our stock market is dropping and the property market is sluggish.
Reuters
4
Periods of no great change in tastes meant sluggish performance, he said.
The Irish Times
5
Yet even a more sluggish Netflix remains far ahead in the race.
Reuters
Usage of sulky in English
1
We hadn't gone five yards when Strike spoke, sounding winded and sulky.
Speaking in Bones
2
I want to be icy, but I fear I appear only sulky.
The White Queen
3
For a few minutes the sulky one performed on the flying rings.
Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis; Or, Leaders of the Second...
4
Gone was the self-absorbed, sulky look that he had mostly worn before.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
5
She looked sulky but said, You're not the only detective in Chicago.
Body work
6
My face was the portrait of a sulky schoolboy as Stanley continued:
Tell England / A Study in a Generation
7
Surely I was sulky-notincapable; unwilling to oblige-notunable to do so.
In Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
8
The tracks of the wheel rims engaged entirely his sulky, lowering gaze.
Man-Size
9
Hoag looked scared, then sulky, and said; I dunno what ye mean.
Rolf in the Woods
10
He called to the sulky fellow, however, and the sulky fellow came.
The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
11
She had just reached there when Eleanor walked in, looking extremely sulky.
Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School / Or, Fast Friends in...
12
She did not see the sulky young fellow who had followed her.
The Day of the Beast
13
He was hungry, and once more tired of being alone and sulky.
The Settlers at Home
14
As for Paula, she hardly ever stepped out of her sulky reticence.
The God That Failed
15
Her eyes were swollen the next morning, but she was not sulky.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
16
He who obtains only a few unimportant wounds retires sulky and disappointed.
Three Men on the Bummel
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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