0 behaviour in which you refuse to smile or be pleasant to people, especially because you are angry about something:
I can't bear his sulkiness.
If she is given an unintentional slight she will brood in sulkiness for days afterwards.
She is throwing things around out of sulkiness.
I felt helpless in the face of my own infantile bad temper and sulkiness.
Here the most common demonstration of temperament is sulkiness on a heavy damp day.
He now became bright and pleasant and had lost all irritability and sulkiness.
This caused the woman to accuse her of sulkiness, at which the girl looked up with swollen eyes, full of tears.
Quite analogous to this is sulkiness that occasionally appears.
Sulkiness at being thus thwarted replaced her earlier attempt at amenability.
