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/sʌlk/ · verb
(intransitive) To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn..
Mr. Riach, who had been to the college, spoke to me like a friend when he was not sulking, and told me many curious things, […]
You crossed her last wish in death and yet you sulk with me because I don’t whinge like some hired mute from Lalouette’s.
Leo has been in a sulk all morning.
He thanks our miserable Liberal agent, an unbeliever called Donald Somebody, see the caption, who since the court's arrival on his territory has retired into a fuming sulk from which he has only tonight emerged.
"[…] home during the holidays," said the Doctor with a good-humoured laugh, "but a fit of the sulks is no very uncommon thing for him;" and then he added,[…]
The Puddin', who had got the sulks over Sam's remark that fifteen goes of steak and kidney were enough for any self-respecting man, protested against the singing, which, he said, disturbed his gravy.
Don't be such a sulk, Leo!
Use sulk when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sulk means (intransitive) To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn..
Common synonyms include mope, brood, pout, grizzle.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Mr. Riach, who had been to the college, spoke to me like a friend when he was not sulking, and told me many curious things, […]
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