poutingly
- a word derived from pout.
Example Sentences
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“What is wrong with me, Henri?” she poutingly asks Lautrec.
From Time • Dec. 18, 2016
When jolly Mayor Roger Lapham gave her a gold medal, she poutingly demanded a kiss as well, received a peck on the forehead, both cheeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"Then why don't you stay where you can see it?" she asked poutingly.
From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Major, Charles
Euphrasia had risen poutingly, and crushed her straw hat in her hand; tall Albertina drew aside from the Doctor as from a criminal.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von
"But you told me at the ranch that Wolf was one of ten in your Las Palomas mount," she poutingly protested.
From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy