sourish

Example Sentences

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Duke Vincentio finally returns to square these various accounts, "measure for measure," and give this sourish play an ambiguously happy ending.

From Time Magazine Archive

He then took another taste, and remarked, "It's sourish."

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

Apples are sometimes found that are sweetish on one side and sourish on the other.

From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

When the cell is completed, it is filled about two thirds full of bee-bread,—the color of that in the comb in the hive, but not so dry, and having a sourish smell.

From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by Burroughs, John

It smelled horrid and sourish, as shutup bedrooms do.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)