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

Says Misander, in a sourish way, "Since you value my conversation so, perhaps you will be good enough not to smoke for the next ten minutes."

From A Woman-Hater by Reade, Charles

For each guest there was a cocoa-nut shell, half-filled with miti, a sourish beverage extracted from the cocoa-palm.

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida

On the table stood pint bottles of sourish Moselle, over the table floated a thick mist of cigar smoke, and through the mist came voices, peevish, grating, discussing the latest event in the Army Register.

From Good Blood by Wildenbruch, Ernst Von

It stood open, and from the cool and shadowy interior came a sourish smell of malt liquors and the hum of voices.

From The Wrong Twin by Wilson, Harry Leon