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Definition of Sourly
1. Adverb. In a sour manner. "He complained sourly that the new rules only benefitted the managers"
Definition of Sourly
1. adv. In a sour manner; with sourness.
Definition of Sourly
1. Adverb. In a sour manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sourly
1. in a sour manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sourly
Literary usage of Sourly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad (1912)
"He smiled rather sourly. He was dyspeptic, and suffered from gnawing hunger in
the morning. The second smiled broadly, a smile that made two vertical folds ..."
2. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1874)
"Miles took to speaking sharply and sourly to his old aunts who had brought him up.
His conscience smote him for it, but the smiting of his conscience ..."
3. The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed. by Thomas Brooks, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1866)
"Secondly, This truth looks sourly upon those that fret, chafe, and vex, when they
are ... First, This looks sourly and sadly upon murmurers, upon such as do ..."
4. Saracinesca by F[rancis] Marion Crawford (1887)
"... sourly," that his excited manner just now was due to one of two things—either
his vanity or his money is in danger. As for the way he yelled after ..."
5. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"... arfu. roughly; bitingly ; sourly ; tartly ; eagerly. Cela arriva après la
révolution, that happened after the revolution. ..."
6. Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English by John Walker (1823)
"dirt deeply insinuated Grime, grime, va to dirt, to sully deeply Grimly, grim'lc.
ad. horribly, sourly, sullenly Grimness, ..."
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