poutier; poutiest
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: expressive of displeasure

Examples of pouty in a Sentence

we could tell from the way she turned pouty that she'd lost the tennis match
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Nico no longer viewed Luka as a gift, but an enabled, pouty headcase who takes his talent for granted, won’t change, and will pay for it sooner rather than later. Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Feb. 2025 Instead, Schrader recasts his old American Gigolo — Gere’s wisps of white hair, unshaven beard, and wheelchair mostly recall a pouty version of elderly Henry Miller in Warren Beatty’s Reds. Armond White, National Review, 25 Dec. 2024 This is Martha before the magazine and the product lines, before the Snoop Dogg friendship and the pouty lips. Leah Asmelash, CNN, 28 Jan. 2024 But after a whiny Netflix documentary, a whiny biography (‘Spare’ — even the title is a pouty gripe) and an inert podcast, the Harry and Meghan brand swelled into a sanctimonious bubble just begging to be popped — and ‘South Park’ was the pin. Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pouty

Word History

First Known Use

1799, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of pouty was in 1799

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“Pouty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pouty. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.

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