Sulky vs Wretched - What's the difference?
sulky | wretched |
silent and withdrawn after being upset
* 1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.
Any carriage seating only the driver.
Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
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Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.
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, title= (obsolete) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
As adjectives the difference between sulky and wretched
is that sulky is silent and withdrawn after being upset while wretched is very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.As a noun sulky
is a low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.sulky
English
Adjective
(er)- the sulky child
- The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky , and would only say, āIām older than you, and must know better.ā And this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.
Synonyms
* sullen, moroseNoun
(sulkies)wretched
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en-adj)citation, passage=As for me, I felt wretched and helpless, in the darkness, surrounded with angry waves, whose noise deafened me.}}
citation, passage=My room is a wretched , horrid one in the outskirts of the town.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
- All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag,.
Liverpool 3-0 Man City, passage=Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini. }}