Meaning of SULKINESS
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- [n] a sullen moody resentful disposition
- [n] a feeling of sulky resentment
- [n] a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal; "stayed home in a sulk"
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| | Synonyms: | | huffishness, moroseness, sourness, sulk, sullenness |
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| | See Also: | | bitterness, gall, humor, humour, ill nature, mood, rancor, rancour, resentment, temper | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Sulk"i*ness\, n. [For sulkenness, fr. AS. solcen
slothful, remiss, in [=a]solcen, besolcen, properly p. p. of
sealcan in [=a]sealcan to be weak or slothful; of uncertain
origin.]
The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness;
as, sulkiness of disposition.
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