Definitions
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- adjective
comparative form ofsour : moresour
Etymologies
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Examples
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He made no reply, but turned and stared into the gray south-west with an expression sourer than any I had ever seen on his face.
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He made no reply, but turned and stared into the gray south-west with an expression sourer than any I had ever seen on his face.
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He made no reply, but turned and stared into the gray south-west with an expression sourer than any I had ever seen on his face.
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The economy turned even sourer in the two years after Roosevelt's 1936 land slide win, and unemployment crept up higher from its still double digit numbers.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: President Obama Tear a Page from FDR and Turn a Tin Ear to the GOP Hawks
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The economy turned even sourer in the two years after Roosevelt's 1936 land slide win, and unemployment crept up higher from its still double digit numbers.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: President Obama Tear a Page from FDR and Turn a Tin Ear to the GOP Hawks
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Women aren't disposed to sweeter tastes, or men to sourer, Bell says – the fact that we think they are is an element of our cultural story.
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The other staples in our rotation were oladi closer to buttermilk hotcakes, yet slightly sourer, wetter and smaller and blinchiki —thin pancakes akin to French crêpes, though less buttery.
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The economy turned even sourer in the two years after Roosevelt's 1936 land slide win, and unemployment crept up higher from its still double digit numbers.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: President Obama Tear a Page from FDR and Turn a Tin Ear to the GOP Hawks
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“My head hurts,” Lady Estra said, and her expression, even sourer than usual, seemed to support her claim.
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The more pragmatic Nigella Lawson hedges her bets by using both preserving sugar which contains less pectin than jam sugar, and thus is more generally deployed for sourer fruits such as blackcurrants and lemon juice, on the basis that "the lemon provides enough pectin to make the jam set and the larger crystals of the preserving sugar make for a clearer, more jewel-like, jam."
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