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  1. sulkverb

    Synonyms:
    mope

  2. sulkverb

    to express ill humor or offense by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn.

    Synonyms:
    mope

Princeton's WordNet3.5 / 2 votes

  1. sulk, sulkinessverb

    a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal

    "stayed home in a sulk"

    Synonyms:
    huffishness, sourness, sulkiness, moroseness, sullenness

  2. sulk, pout, broodverb

    be in a huff and display one's displeasure

    "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted"

    Synonyms:
    cover, stew, mow, dwell, loom, hatch, grizzle, pout, mop, brood, hover, bulk large, incubate

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. cryverb

    lightly crying

    i sulked at the sight off the dead body

    Submitted by DaemonSmith on August 24, 2021  

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "sulk":

    pout

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How to use sulk in a sentence?

  1. Travis Mills:

    I could sit there and sulk and mope and be upset. But why?It does me no good, and I learned a couple of life lessons through this, the first one is I ca n’t control my situation but I can always control my attitude – so I decided to have a good attitude.Be bright and go.

  2. Bashar Ja'afari:

    We do not expect him to sulk, we do not expect him to withdraw as he has done several times.

  3. Kofi Cockburn:

    We came together, we didnt hold our head down. We didnt sulk about anything. ... We just came out there and we swung back.


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