What's the difference between grim and sulky?

Grim


Definition:

  • (Compar.) Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
  • (2) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
  • (3) Patients with anti-NC1 antibodies were characterised by linear immune deposits along the glomerular basement membrane and the clinical outcome was invariably grim.
  • (4) The Mail branded the deal "a grim day for all who value freedom" and, like the Times, accused David Cameron of crossing the Rubicon and threatening press freedom for the first time since newspapers were licensed in the 17th century.
  • (5) ARD TV showing grim-faced FDP cadres: could this be the first time they fall out of national parliament in 60 years?
  • (6) It has said a better productivity performance and rising North Sea oil revenues will make the budgetary position less grim.
  • (7) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.
  • (8) Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule Read more The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia and an alliance of rebels known as the “Euphrates Volcano” – backed US-led coalition air strikes – have seized swaths of territory from Isis, including the strategic border town of Tal Abyad .
  • (9) Yet, if that flurry of form pepped optimism, the injuries and displays in recent friendlies have provided a grim reality check.
  • (10) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
  • (11) Chinese media and bloggers published images of three young children in blue school uniforms lying dead on the pavement – a grim echo of the high casualty rate at poorly constructed schools in Sichuan in 2008, when a bigger quake killed 87,000 people.
  • (12) The BCC survey represents a turnround from the end of last year, when it was predicting stagflation – a grim combination of zero growth and inflation.
  • (13) The human rights organisation, which has produced a series of in-depth reports detailing the grim working conditions of many of the 1.5 million migrant labourers engaged in a huge construction boom, said “little has changed in law, policy and practice” since the government promised limited reforms 12 months ago.
  • (14) Carcinoma of unknown histogenesis or primary site is an increasingly recognized syndrome regarded by most physicians as having a grim prognosis.
  • (15) "There are times when a swingeing sentence can act as a deterrent", as the judge at the trial was grimly to pronounce.
  • (16) The footage beamed back from the liberated districts of Ramadi is grim: a ghost town littered with debris and smashed concrete, destroyed storefronts, plumes of smoke, the sound of gunfire piercing the air as Iraqi soldiers speak on camera.
  • (17) It was my shortcomings as coach that caused this result,” said a grim-faced South Korea manager, Hong Myung-bo, who spent most of the post-match press-conference scratching his nose in apparent distress and deflecting comments about whether he would stay on as manager until next year’s Asian Cup.
  • (18) After grim news on the recession, at least one thing should become clearer: going back to where we were is no longer an option.
  • (19) While deplorable and to a degree self-defeating, this insouciant defiance also makes a grim kind of sense, both historically and reinforced by recent events.
  • (20) The entity carries a grim visual prognosis, as all ten eyes initially had no perception of light; improvement to light perception occurred in one instance.

Sulky


Definition:

  • (n.) Moodly silent; sullen; sour; obstinate; morose; splenetic.
  • (a.) A light two-wheeled carriage for a single person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This 90s pop confection had torn tights, a sulky attitude and high regard for Quentin Tarantino.
  • (2) As soon as I called them and was like, 'Hey guys, it's OK, I'm not smoking meth or anything,' it was OK." He adds, frowning: "I don't really know why it happened… My girlfriend told me everyone had been saying, [he puts on a sulky voice] 'Man, Mac's shows aren't crazy any more.'
  • (3) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
  • (4) The sulky teenager has, in fact, got it slightly wrong: the family tradition is to be impregnated by the landlord of the Queen Vic – not, as in this case, the landlord's little brother.
  • (5) The Mirror also said that even Clarkson’s “most sulky fans” should find a lot to like about the show after his departure and the Telegraph welcomed Evans and co’s conservative approach.
  • (6) In the horse-related fatalities, the most common cause of accident was that the horse bolted or reared, causing the rider to fall off the horse or the cart or sulky.
  • (7) Updated at 7.45pm BST 7.35pm BST Asked on ITV about his pre-match team-talk, Mourinho reveals that he's giving his side the sulky wife treatment: "No words ... my silence is a good way for them to understand how I feel".
  • (8) Only rarely do we see a gem such as the glorious Quentin Tarantino interview, where he shouted at Krishnan Guru-Murthy : “I’m shutting your butt down!” As a rule, in print media, it’s your word against theirs regarding any sulky, ill-mannered, ball-stabbing shenanigans.
  • (9) This isn't the charming hero we're used to seeing Pitt play; he's jowly and sulky and racked with a sense of failure, a threatening and disciplinarian family presence.
  • (10) In a small room off the tunnel at Wycombe’s ground, as a tea urn belched steam into the freezing January air, he bemoaned, in his characteristically sulky way, a recruitment policy that had left him overburdened with attacking players but bereft of defensive cover.
  • (11) Brando was Johnny the biker in The Wild One (1953), a very camp figure, a gay icon, but a sulky kid who, when asked "What are you rebelling against?
  • (12) But in the case of Sulky Batman 3.0, it's way too po-faced.
  • (13) That sounds like a full-time job to me – try employing your sulky teenager or dog to do it for you.
  • (14) All those years spent in the dark, believing that colleagues were putting up with that sulky sourness in order to squeeze every moment from the day.
  • (15) The styles of the two men could not be more different – Ford's emotional careering from sulkiness to rage could not look more different, on TV at least, from Harper's gently superior thin-lipped smile.
  • (16) The meeting followed a four-year mutual sulky silence prompted by what Peter may (or may not) have said about Christopher being a Stalinist.
  • (17) Catch-22's author was then a sulky, ill-tempered 37-year old advertising executive in New York, who had thick, short, curly hair, a strong chin and a fleshy nose.
  • (18) When did your sweetpea become a massive sulky thing?
  • (19) It could be that their elimination is a liberation and they return to the free-flowing style of qualifying but the mood after the defeat by Nigeria was one of sulkiness and disaffection.