sulking 1 of 2

present participle of sulk
as in pouting
to silently go about in a bad mood the toddler would sulk for hours whenever he didn't get his way

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sulking

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adjective

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Recent Examples of sulking
Verb
His owner shared a viral TikTok sound over the clip, from when another owner went through the very same thing with her own sulking dog. Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Still, Brown did not spend his offseason sulking. Sean Gregory, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024 No one is going to get better by sulking. Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sulking
Adjective
  • Still, Ortega’s performance proves that sulky, baleful gravity doesn’t have to lose its strange luster over time (a third season has already been announced).
    Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Founder Max Siegelman drew upon his family’s harness racing roots thanks to the boarding and teaching facility for the sport involving the powerful animal, a sulky and human direction that dates to the 1800s in the US.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Mark, with his fighting regimen, is a lot to handle, but so is Dawn, who’s a rather sullen party-girl princess.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The President is a sullen bore, but Servillo’s performance is always a hair less moribund than the movie around it, and held tight by the sincerity of his ambivalence.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • His Teddy is a skeevy, scowling hippie incel who seems to have burnt everything out of himself but the desire for vengeance.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025

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“Sulking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sulking. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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