to be in a sulky mood

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• sulky — adjective sulky faces Syn: sullen, surly, moping, pouting, moody, sour, piqued, petulant, brooding, broody, disgruntled, ill humored, in a bad mood, out of humor, fed up, put out; bad tempered, grumpy, huffy …   Thesaurus of popular words

• not in the mood — Synonyms and related words: at odds, averse, cursory, differing, disagreeing, disinclined, disobedient, forced, fractious, indisposed, indocile, involuntary, mutinous, opposed, perfunctory, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, sulky, sullen,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• sulk — [sulk] vi. [back form. < SULKY] to be sulky n. 1. a sulky mood or state: also the sulks 2. a sulky person …   English World dictionary

• Sulks — Sulks, n. pl. The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• sulk — I. intransitive verb Etymology: back formation from sulky Date: 1781 to be moodily silent II. noun Date: 1804 1. the state of one sulking often used in plural < had a case of the sulks > 2. a sulky mood or spell …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• grouch — ☆ grouch [grouch ] vi. [< earlier grutch < ME grucchen: see GRUDGE] to grumble or complain in a sulky way n. 1. a person who grouches continually 2. a grumbling or sulky mood 3. a complaint …   English World dictionary

• grump — /grump/, n. 1. a person given to constant complaining. 2. Informal. the grumps, a depressed or sulky mood. v.i. 3. to complain or sulk. [1835 45; prob. back formation from GRUMPY] * * * …   Universalium

• sulkiness — noun 1. a feeling of sulky resentment • Syn: ↑huffishness • Derivationally related forms: ↑huffish (for: ↑huffishness), ↑sulky • Hypernyms: ↑resen …   Useful english dictionary

• sullen — adjective Etymology: Middle English solein solitary, from Anglo French sulein, solain, perhaps from sol, soul single, sole + ain after Old French soltain solitary, private, from Late Latin solitaneus, ultimately from Latin solus alone Date: 14th… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Sullen — Sul len, a. [OE. solein, solain, lonely, sullen; through Old French fr. (assumed) LL. solanus solitary, fr. L. solus alone. See {Sole}, a.] 1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] Wyclif (Job iii. 14). [1913 Webster] 2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Sullenly — Sullen Sul len, a. [OE. solein, solain, lonely, sullen; through Old French fr. (assumed) LL. solanus solitary, fr. L. solus alone. See {Sole}, a.] 1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] Wyclif (Job iii. 14). [1913 Webster] 2. Gloomy; dismal;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English