sour grapes

Example Sentences

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To atone, Ana-Maria says, they must eat sour grapes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Was it sour grapes, then, when Jamie Dimon called out private-credit firms over the recent spate of bankruptcies hitting banks?

From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025

Pizzolatto’s sour grapes look like the response of a man angry at seeing a job he created and thought was his and his alone be handed to someone else.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2024

I lacked sufficient objectivity to produce anything better than 200,000 words’ worth of sour grapes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2023

“Now, Handel, I am quite free from the flavour of sour grapes, upon my soul and honour! Not being bound to her, can you not detach yourself from her?—I told you I should be disagreeable.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens