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Meanings of sourness in English

Russian
кислое
Portuguese
acididade
Catalan
agresa

Basic taste.

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        кислое

        A sullen moody resentful disposition.

              Usage of sourness in English
              1
              Despite the sourness of the moment, he was pleased with Ruth herself.
              Crown of Slaves
              2
              Such a continual contrariety irritates and stirs up sourness in the heart.
              The Autobiography of Madame Guyon
              3
              They all concur in calling sweetness pleasant, and sourness and bitterness unpleasant.
              The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (...
              4
              Breakfast did, in fact, take some of the sourness out of me.
              Dexter in the Dark
              5
              The vanilla can take away from the sourness, which is fairly subtle.
              The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
              6
              But his countenance showed nothing whatever of sourness, or of grim endurance.
              The Crown of Life
              7
              Sweetness helps mask or balance both sourness and bitterness from other ingredients.
              On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
              8
              Orman's stomach churned with acid sourness -what a fool he was!
              Assail
              9
              It is deep, and has a dash of sourness or shrillness in it.
              By What Authority?
              10
              They occasion sourness, both on the one side and the other.
              Thrift
              11
              Don't mistake my observations on Apple as sourness about the stock.
              Reuters
              12
              Any hints of sourness and the tofu is past its prime.
              The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
              13
              The forest smelt like a hothouse, but the smell had an unwholesome sourness.
              The Buccaneer Farmer / Published in England under the Title "Ask...
              14
              There's a sourness in the air, a sense of stubborn withdrawal.
              The new yorker
              15
              This will correct any tendency to sourness, and make the yeast more brisk.
              Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
              16
              There was sourness in his tone, a sting of real resentment.
              The Girls
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              Sourness through the time
              Sourness across language varieties
              United Kingdom
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