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Meanings of sulky in inglés
Sinónimos
Examples for "gloomy"
Examples for "gloomy"
1
The planet's inhabitants will remain gloomy, however, even despite their new surroundings.
2
Chris's own father had reached the gloomy state of mind long ago.
3
In general, he had the most gloomy ideas concerning almost all events.
4
Rival Spanish hotel chain Melia MEL.MC reported similarly gloomy results last week.
5
But it may point to a gloomy long-term outlook for energy prices.
1
Marian, coming in a few minutes later, found her glooming there still.
2
Under a grey sky, glooming to purple, the gelid water writhed nakedly.
3
There is sadness glooming out of him, but no unkindness nor asperity.
4
Through the frozen glooming Nyssa saw Moll's legs with her single good eye.
5
Tom sat glooming over it for a time, shrouding himself in tobacco smoke.
1
If it were anything you'd like to hear, but why should you know what is all sad and gloomful?
Usage of sulky in inglés
1
We hadn't gone five yards when Strike spoke, sounding winded and sulky.
2
I want to be icy, but I fear I appear only sulky.
3
For a few minutes the sulky one performed on the flying rings.
4
Gone was the self-absorbed, sulky look that he had mostly worn before.
5
She looked sulky but said, You're not the only detective in Chicago.
6
My face was the portrait of a sulky schoolboy as Stanley continued:
7
Surely I was sulky-notincapable; unwilling to oblige-notunable to do so.
8
The tracks of the wheel rims engaged entirely his sulky, lowering gaze.
9
Hoag looked scared, then sulky, and said; I dunno what ye mean.
10
He called to the sulky fellow, however, and the sulky fellow came.
11
She had just reached there when Eleanor walked in, looking extremely sulky.
12
She did not see the sulky young fellow who had followed her.
13
He was hungry, and once more tired of being alone and sulky.
14
As for Paula, she hardly ever stepped out of her sulky reticence.
15
Her eyes were swollen the next morning, but she was not sulky.
16
He who obtains only a few unimportant wounds retires sulky and disappointed.
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Sulky through the time
Sulky across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common