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Definition of Sulkiest
1. sulky [adj] - See also: sulky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sulkiest
Literary usage of Sulkiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"... murmur was hushed, and the sulkiest laggards pushed on feverishly, as if
dreading a rush of the beast-men from every cleft and glade. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"The sulkiest young puss that ever pouted her household into discomfort will urge
that she is of a sensitive nature, and readily hurt, and ought to be better ..."
3. The Bookman (1897)
"He was a stickler for English prestige, and outward respect he wrung from the
sulkiest and the most alienated foreign monarchs and ministers—till he was ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... "a well-known voice salutes our ear," and we have a knack of making ourselves
welcome wherever we go, except perhaps among the sulkiest of the Whigs. ..."
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