I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cindy always sulks when I won't buy her any candy.
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What are you sulking about now?
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You can't sit around sulking all day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He sulked, grateful only that he had not insisted on the iron mask, but had chosen the velvet one.
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It hurts, you know, but he wouldn't want me to sulk on it.
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Madeleine, however, did not sulk for long.
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Mitchell could have sulked his way out of the league, which happens frequently.
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No, on second thoughts, I wasn't sulking.
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Tony was humming to himself as he drove along but Freddie sat silent, sulking over the raid that never was.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it was silly to go into a major sulk .
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His face was sallow, his lips curled down in a perpetual sulk .
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His scowl wedded to her sulks, eh?
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The attendant, now adding a sulk to his sullenness, had shuffled off to the kitchen area.