scourer

Example Sentences

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For the rest of us, however, inflation may leave a sourer taste.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2022

But in two self-portraits, featuring the artist cradling an old-time painter’s palette, you also sense a sourer side.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2021

Compared with punchier, sourer, more cynical sitcoms—from All in the Family to Seinfeld to The Office—that found humor in humanity’s bad behavior, Friends was smiley and conflict-averse to the point of being featherweight.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2014

Now three decades old, the unused vacuum cleaners still bristle with the glory of newness, though the sculpture's beatification of consumer commodities tastes even sourer in our more ecologically minded age.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2014

Dad began, and then gave a sourer laugh than Oscar's.

From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam