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one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons tasteful having a sharp biting taste acerb, acetose, acidic, acidulated, lemony, subacid smelling of fermentation or staleness malodorous make sour or more sour go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out" a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth in an unpalatable state; "sour milk" soured the property of being acidic inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key" inharmonious showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper ill-natured |
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