adjective
smelling of fermentation or staleness
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adjective
having a sharp biting taste
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adjective
one of the four basic taste sensations
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- like the taste of vinegar or lemons
adjective
in an unpalatable state
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- sour milk
adjective
inaccurate in pitch
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- a false (or sour) note
- her singing was off key
adjective
showing a brooding ill humor
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- 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
- a sullen crowd