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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Denial of the desirability of something after one has found out that it cannot be reached or acquired: The losers' scorn for the award is pure sour grapes.

Wiktionary

  1. n. idiomatic A putting down or expression of disdain about something that one desires but cannot have.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; -- in allusion to Æsop's fable of the fox and the grapes.
  2. adj. See under Grape.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. disparagement of something that is unattainable

Etymologies

  1. From the Aesop's fable The Fox and the Grapes, in which a fox, unable to reach grapes he is seeking, decides that they must have been sour. (Wiktionary)

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