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sulky
Synonyms and Antonyms of sulky
given to or displaying a resentful silence and often irritability
choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, irritable, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snarky, snippety, snippy, testy, waspish
bearish, bilious, cantankerous, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, ornery
huffy, sensitive, temperamental, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy
down in the mouth
Synonym Discussion of sulky
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- remained sullen amid the festivities
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- a glum candidate left to ponder a stunning defeat
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- morose job seekers who are inured to rejection
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- a typical surly teenager
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- grew sulky after every spat
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- the school's notoriously crabbed headmaster
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- a saturnine cynic always finding fault
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- a gloomy mood ushered in by bad news
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