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单词 sulky
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Definition of sulky in English:

sulky

adjectivesulkiest, sulkier ˈsʌlkiˈsəlki
  • 1Morose, bad-tempered, and resentful; refusing to be cooperative or cheerful.

    生气的,愠怒的;不合作的;郁闷的

    disappointment was making her sulky

    失望使她郁郁寡欢。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Often, the effect is like a bird buzzing a hippopotamus, the electronics here, there and everywhere, the guitar static and sulky.
    • Across the nation fights break out in living rooms as sulky teenagers beat their younger siblings senseless with remote controls in an effort to watch their favourite anti-heroes scream on BBC2.
    • Say no more, except perhaps to point out that if you want your views taken seriously in Brussels, try to make sure you're smoking Gauloises and are accompanied by several hundred sulky colleagues in trucks.
    • After she declined a proposal to have dinner with him he returned to his more sullen and sulky ways.
    • But while he does the long dark tunnel of sulky adolescence very well, he is a less-than-ardent lover and vocally colourless.
    • No I have not turned a millionaire overnight, I did not get a double promotion, my life is no less messier than what it was a few days back and I am still the sulky, morose chap you met around the corner yesterday.
    • Chloe nodded, but refused to be pulled out of her sulky state.
    • She was a sulky, angry child, who hated her home overseas.
    • Teens are sulky, and moody and think WAY to highly of themselves for the most part.
    • Rounding out the cast are her sulky daughter, a prisoner called Garin and a court troubadour, all of whom are suspects when the count is stabbed through the heart.
    • And, most challengingly, how can you organise a successful family holiday with sulky teenagers?
    • He is moody, brilliant, sulky, a cheat, and intermittently sublime.
    • Many times one gets the impression he would rather live life as his schizoid alter ego, a sulky, moody 12-year-old trapped in a man's body.
    • Conor O'Neill is your typical underachiever, a good-looking, sulky drifter who's a ticket scalper and a gambler on the wrong side of the dice.
    • Indeed, while Cole has a reputation for being at times a sulky figure in public, that probably stems from a distrust of the media and experience is changing him into a more laid-back character.
    • Holmes plays sulky New Yorker April Burns, who, while her estranged family spend the day driving to visit her, frantically attempts to cook up a conciliatory Thanksgiving dinner for them all.
    • Understandably, therefore, Coulthard has been irritated by the speculation surrounding his future, but in his defence, he has neither resorted to lashing out at his critics or wasting energy in sulky routines.
    • Although beautifully shot, the film is crippled by its sluggish pace, and it is difficult to muster much sympathy for the petulant, sulky Ishmael.
    • After several days of being sulky, Kate flatly refused to talk to me on Wednesday.
    • She claimed to have been calling me since 2pm to ask for directions; this kind of clarified my feeling that she was not someone I want to share space with and we had a conversation that made me feel like the mother of a sulky teenager.
    Synonyms
    sullen, surly, moping, pouting, moody, sour, piqued, petulant, disgruntled, ill-humoured, in a bad mood, having a fit of the sulks, out of humour, fed up, put out, out of sorts, mopey, mopish
    bad-tempered, fractious, grumpy, huffy, scowling, glowering, resentful, dark, glum, gloomy, morose
    angry, cross, peeved
    informal chippy, mumpish, grouchy, stroppy
    Northern English informal mardy
    1. 1.1 Expressing or suggesting gloom and bad temper.
      忧伤的;坏脾气的
      she had a sultry, sulky mouth

      她总爱怨天尤人。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He is extraordinary-looking, with cold blue-green eyes, high cheekbones and full, sulky lips that are happiest when in full pout.
      • The postbags under his eyes have lost a few bulging packages, and his naturally sulky pout seems, if not upturned into an actual smile, at least faintly curved.
      • Her heart-shaped face was now dabbed with a few tears, her mouth formed in a sulky pout.
      • Her mouth was pinched, almost sulky, as if she'd sucked on a lemon.
      • His gloom was more than sulky posturing: when Smith sang about heroin addiction or alcoholism or depression, he was singing about things he had experienced first-hand.
      • His mouth was sulky and his skin was so pale and thin that he looked almost transparent.
      • Now, she's hoping her sulky blend of jazz will stir up interest in the U.S., too.
      • At the time, ironically, the review was dismissed as being by an obscure, sulky no-hoper rubbishing the likely winner.
      • With that I had to find a chef, face his sulky face as he finds a lemon, wait for him in the very hot kitchen as he cuts it, and walk a very very long distance to give it to her.
      • Paul watches David and Lil's entry and gets the funniest sulky look on his face as he watches them together.
      • Toadie, Connor and Lou are happy to see him but Stuart barely moves from his sulky position on the couch, where he's been all week.
      • For a man who had preferred to limit himself merely to a sulky acknowledgement of Blair's position, it was a significant concession.
nounPlural sulkies ˈsʌlkiˈsəlki
  • A light two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for one person, used chiefly in trotting races.

    双轮单座马车,轻驾车(主要用于快步马轻驾车比赛)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is the type of horse racing where the jockey sits on the sulky (the little cart in the back).
    • The prompters, which are not permitted to put their head in front of the horse in the time trial, were Thoroughbreds hitched to sulkies who galloped behind Moni Maker.
    • The subject of the racing of sulkies on the main road was discussed.
    • Visitors to John's farm also get to view his large collection of farm and agricultural implements and timber cutting gear and have a ride on a draught horse slide or sulky.
    • The sport progressed with the development of the light sulky in the early twentieth century and the introduction of regular night meetings at Harold Park, Sydney, in 1949.
    • The potential for serious injury is high, says the report, and the racing of horses and sulkies near the Rising Sun, on Long Marton Road, at more than 30 mph, with several hundred spectators, gives the most grave concerns.

Derivatives

  • sulkily

  • adverb ˈsʌlkɪliˈsəlkəli
    • Presented with the most sublime, savage and overpowering rock performances of all time, the British slouched sulkily back to their houses.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘It's getting adversarial now,’ he declared sulkily, ‘you're trying to twist my words.’
      • Dundee were then one of Scotland's leading club sides but when the final whistle went the wee Rangers remained jubilantly on the field while the Dens Park stars trudged silently and sulkily to the dressing room.
      • ‘I'm not signing this, it's preposterous, he's an adult,’ my husband says, hurling the papers sulkily across the room.
      • And so the riot would continue for another forty minutes, when as if on cue, the students would slowly and sulkily slope off to tend to their wounds and collect stones for the next day.
  • sulkiness

  • noun ˈsʌlkɪnəs
    • Though many Leeds fans complained about his laziness and sulkiness in equal measures, there can be no doubting his goalscoring prowess given the right service.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was, instead, vilified for unsportsmanlike behaviour, a sour face, grudging attitude, sulkiness; because that is what people wanted to see.
      • With Professor Joy Klamp as the guide, Radio 4 takes its listeners on a journey into the heart of sulkiness.
      • It is harshly lit and staffed by waitresses whose sulkiness is forgivable seeing as they have to bustle around in 18 th-century outfits.
      • Then she started annoying me with her sulkiness.
      • From the hint of sulkiness with which he confronts his breakfast egg to the nimble little dance steps he executes under the influence of champagne, he shows us the inner rascal trying to break through the pressures of respectability.

Origin

Mid 18th century: perhaps from obsolete sulke 'hard to dispose of', of unknown origin.

Rhymes

bulky

Definition of sulky in US English:

sulky

adjectiveˈsəlkēˈsəlki
  • 1Morose, bad-tempered, and resentful; refusing to be cooperative or cheerful.

    生气的,愠怒的;不合作的;郁闷的

    disappointment was making her sulky

    失望使她郁郁寡欢。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Often, the effect is like a bird buzzing a hippopotamus, the electronics here, there and everywhere, the guitar static and sulky.
    • And, most challengingly, how can you organise a successful family holiday with sulky teenagers?
    • Indeed, while Cole has a reputation for being at times a sulky figure in public, that probably stems from a distrust of the media and experience is changing him into a more laid-back character.
    • Although beautifully shot, the film is crippled by its sluggish pace, and it is difficult to muster much sympathy for the petulant, sulky Ishmael.
    • Teens are sulky, and moody and think WAY to highly of themselves for the most part.
    • No I have not turned a millionaire overnight, I did not get a double promotion, my life is no less messier than what it was a few days back and I am still the sulky, morose chap you met around the corner yesterday.
    • Understandably, therefore, Coulthard has been irritated by the speculation surrounding his future, but in his defence, he has neither resorted to lashing out at his critics or wasting energy in sulky routines.
    • Rounding out the cast are her sulky daughter, a prisoner called Garin and a court troubadour, all of whom are suspects when the count is stabbed through the heart.
    • Conor O'Neill is your typical underachiever, a good-looking, sulky drifter who's a ticket scalper and a gambler on the wrong side of the dice.
    • Say no more, except perhaps to point out that if you want your views taken seriously in Brussels, try to make sure you're smoking Gauloises and are accompanied by several hundred sulky colleagues in trucks.
    • After she declined a proposal to have dinner with him he returned to his more sullen and sulky ways.
    • Chloe nodded, but refused to be pulled out of her sulky state.
    • Many times one gets the impression he would rather live life as his schizoid alter ego, a sulky, moody 12-year-old trapped in a man's body.
    • Holmes plays sulky New Yorker April Burns, who, while her estranged family spend the day driving to visit her, frantically attempts to cook up a conciliatory Thanksgiving dinner for them all.
    • He is moody, brilliant, sulky, a cheat, and intermittently sublime.
    • She claimed to have been calling me since 2pm to ask for directions; this kind of clarified my feeling that she was not someone I want to share space with and we had a conversation that made me feel like the mother of a sulky teenager.
    • But while he does the long dark tunnel of sulky adolescence very well, he is a less-than-ardent lover and vocally colourless.
    • She was a sulky, angry child, who hated her home overseas.
    • Across the nation fights break out in living rooms as sulky teenagers beat their younger siblings senseless with remote controls in an effort to watch their favourite anti-heroes scream on BBC2.
    • After several days of being sulky, Kate flatly refused to talk to me on Wednesday.
    Synonyms
    sullen, surly, moping, pouting, moody, sour, piqued, petulant, disgruntled, ill-humoured, in a bad mood, having a fit of the sulks, out of humour, fed up, put out, out of sorts, mopey, mopish
    1. 1.1 Expressing or suggesting gloom and bad temper.
      忧伤的;坏脾气的
      she had a sultry, sulky mouth

      她总爱怨天尤人。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Toadie, Connor and Lou are happy to see him but Stuart barely moves from his sulky position on the couch, where he's been all week.
      • Her heart-shaped face was now dabbed with a few tears, her mouth formed in a sulky pout.
      • Now, she's hoping her sulky blend of jazz will stir up interest in the U.S., too.
      • At the time, ironically, the review was dismissed as being by an obscure, sulky no-hoper rubbishing the likely winner.
      • The postbags under his eyes have lost a few bulging packages, and his naturally sulky pout seems, if not upturned into an actual smile, at least faintly curved.
      • With that I had to find a chef, face his sulky face as he finds a lemon, wait for him in the very hot kitchen as he cuts it, and walk a very very long distance to give it to her.
      • Her mouth was pinched, almost sulky, as if she'd sucked on a lemon.
      • His gloom was more than sulky posturing: when Smith sang about heroin addiction or alcoholism or depression, he was singing about things he had experienced first-hand.
      • Paul watches David and Lil's entry and gets the funniest sulky look on his face as he watches them together.
      • His mouth was sulky and his skin was so pale and thin that he looked almost transparent.
      • He is extraordinary-looking, with cold blue-green eyes, high cheekbones and full, sulky lips that are happiest when in full pout.
      • For a man who had preferred to limit himself merely to a sulky acknowledgement of Blair's position, it was a significant concession.
nounˈsəlkēˈsəlki
  • A light two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for one person, used chiefly in harness racing.

    双轮单座马车,轻驾车(主要用于快步马轻驾车比赛)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The sport progressed with the development of the light sulky in the early twentieth century and the introduction of regular night meetings at Harold Park, Sydney, in 1949.
    • It is the type of horse racing where the jockey sits on the sulky (the little cart in the back).
    • Visitors to John's farm also get to view his large collection of farm and agricultural implements and timber cutting gear and have a ride on a draught horse slide or sulky.
    • The potential for serious injury is high, says the report, and the racing of horses and sulkies near the Rising Sun, on Long Marton Road, at more than 30 mph, with several hundred spectators, gives the most grave concerns.
    • The subject of the racing of sulkies on the main road was discussed.
    • The prompters, which are not permitted to put their head in front of the horse in the time trial, were Thoroughbreds hitched to sulkies who galloped behind Moni Maker.

Origin

Mid 18th century: perhaps from obsolete sulke ‘hard to dispose of’, of unknown origin.

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