sulkily

1. 1.

   in a sulky manner

   “`What else could I do?' said Graham sulkily”

Questions about sulkily

What does sulkily mean?

sulkily means "in a sulky manner".

How many syllables are in sulkily?

sulkily has 3 syllables and divides as sul-ki-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is sulkily a common word?

sulkily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.