adv. [f. SULKY a. + -LY2.] In a sulky manner; with silent or moody ill-humor.
1796. Colman, Iron Chest, Pref. p. ii. Here is a scowling, sullen, black Bull,… he stands sulkily before.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xv. III. 560. Anne, who, when in good humour, was meekly stupid, and, when in bad humour, was sulkily stupid.
1865. Flo. Marryat, Love’s Confl., I. xviii. 317. Agnes took the sulkily-granted leave joyfully.
1874. Green, Short Hist., viii. § 9 (1882), 560. The stricter Covenanters retired sulkily from the Royal army.
fig. 1823. Byron, Juan, XIV. xxviii. When … sulkily the river’s ripple’s flowing.
1839. Kemble, Resid. in Georgia (1863), 69. The eagle … hovered sulkily a while over the river.
