SULKILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sulkily mean? 

• SULKILY (adverb)
  The adverb SULKILY has 1 sense:

1. in a sulky manner

  Familiarity information: SULKILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SULKILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a sulky manner

Context example:

'What else could I do?' said Graham sulkily

Pertainym:

sulky (sullen or moody)

 Context examples 

“See now, Jem, none o’ that!” said Berks, sulkily.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I thought it looked like it,” said the servant rather sulkily; and then, with another voice, “But what matters hand of write?” he said.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“I’ve not had my ’pology,” said he sulkily, glancing in my direction.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She picked up the leg sulkily and led her cow away, the poor animal limping on three legs.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The carter seeing that he had thus lost all that he had, went down into his kitchen; and was still not sorry for what he had done, but sat himself angrily and sulkily in the chimney corner.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Her son sat her down in his chair; and, standing sulkily by her, holding her arm with his hand, but not rudely, said to me, with a ferocious look: What do you want done?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then suddenly we were on a broad bridge with a dark coffee-brown river flowing sulkily beneath it, and bluff-bowed barges drifting down upon its bosom.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Bless me! said he, all the world seems to have a design against my head this morning: and so saying, he threw himself sulkily into his easy chair; but, oh dear! the needle ran into him; and this time the pain was not in his head.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Only gradually did I become aware that the automobiles which turned expectantly into his drive stayed for just a minute and then drove sulkily away. Wondering if he were sick I went over to find out—an unfamiliar butler with a villainous face squinted at me suspiciously from the door.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)