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• n  a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal
• n  a feeling of sulky resentment
• n  a sullen moody resentful disposition

• He'd gone on holidays with friends, but always there'd been sulkiness and tears.
• This sulkiness prompted more than 10,000 Indianapolitans (already infuriated by Governor McCray's decree that the go must be a gentle exhibition) to surge about the ring .
• He was divorced by his first wife for cruelty, sulkiness.

• sulk
• huffishness
• sullenness
• moroseness
• sourness