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Synonyms for pout

sulk

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  • sulk
  • glower
  • mope
  • look sullen
  • purse your lips
  • look petulant
  • pull a long face
  • lour or lower
  • make a moue
  • turn down the corners of your mouth

sullen look

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Synonyms for pout

to be sullenly aloof or withdrawn, as in silent resentment or protest

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a facial contortion indicating displeasure, disgust, or pain

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Synonyms for pout

a disdainful grimace

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catfish common in eastern United States

be in a huff and display one's displeasure

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make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

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References in classic literature ?
'Because, you know, John,' pursued Bella, pouting a little more,
It's no use pouting and crying: that won't repay the trouble I've had, scouring the country after you.
Descendants of some of those proud families still inhabit the palaces of Genoa, and trace in their own features a resemblance to the grim knights whose portraits hang in their stately halls, and to pictured beauties with pouting lips and merry eyes whose originals have been dust and ashes for many a dead and forgotten century.
Celia's face had the shadow of a pouting expression in it, the full presence of the pout being kept back by an habitual awe of Dorothea and principle; two associated facts which might show a mysterious electricity if you touched them incautiously.
'I AM miserable,' returned Madame Mantalini, evidently pouting.
"Oh," said Maggie, pouting, "I dare say I could make it out, if I'd learned what goes before, as you have."
But to my extreme surprise she ended by observing: "If you don't think we have treated you well enough perhaps we can discover some way of treating you better." This speech was somehow so incongruous that it made me laugh again, and I excused myself by saying that she talked as if I were a sulky boy, pouting in the corner, to be "brought round." I had not a grain of complaint to make; and could anything have exceeded Miss Tita's graciousness in accompanying me a few nights before to the Piazza?
She still stood pouting and frowning at me, but presently put down her egg-cup and turned softly towards the bed where Ada lay.