Definitions for sulks

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Spelling: [suhlk]
IPA: /sʌlk/

Sulks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in sulks (klssu).

Definitions for sulks

noun

  1. a state or fit of sulking.
  2. sulks, ill-humor shown by sulking:
  3. Also, sulker. a person who sulks.

verb (used without object)

  1. to remain silent or hold oneself aloof in a sullen, ill-humored, or offended mood:

Origin of sulks

First recorded in 1775-85; back formation from sulky

Examples for sulks

What difference would it make whether in the sulks or out of them?

He sulks and tells silly lies when you come to really know him.

When Elsa breaks up with Von Trapp and sulks off stage near the end, you hate to see her go.

The governor is in the sulks; he has shut himself up, and will not see me.

The wise man, Ulysses, suggests that he be brought from his sulks by mockery.

Susie and Inez quarreled over the dishes and had the sulks all day.

Your heart bleeds for a 12-year-old who sulks after discovering the cruel realities of humanity.

Achilles, the man of action, without honour or imagination, sulks.

She claimed a foul and went off in a fit of sulks, of course.

He was tired of Toad, and his sulks and his airs and his meanness.

Word Value for sulks
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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