sulk about

sulk about (someone or something)

To have a brooding, sullenly aloof, silently resentful attitude or demeanor because of someone or something. A: "What's wrong with Jim?" B: "Oh, he's still sulking about being passed over for the promotion." You can't spend your whole life sulking about your husband. It's time to move on!

sulk about someone or something

and sulk over someone or something

to pout or be sullen about someone or something. What are you sulking about now? There is no need to sulk over Mary.

See also: sulk

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the extreme At every turn I am greeted by negative comments NIGEL FARAGE IN SULK ABOUT NOT GETTING JOB

No10 puts its dislike of me ahead of UK; Mr Farage huffed: "At every stage added: "The world has changed Farage whines after US ambassador snub BY BEN GLAZE

We can either sulk about it - we didn't sulk last year - and we can't sulk this year.

City boss Jones in vow to hit back

But if Berbatov believes that the best way to tempt Sir Alex Ferguson to part with pounds 20million or more is to sulk about and cut down on his work rate, he is kidding himself.

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They know me and they can deal with it or sulk about it but it's no time to be sulking.