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Definition for SOUR'LY
SOUR'ISH
SOUR'NESS
SOUR'LY
, adv.
With acidity.
With peevishness; with acrimony. The stera Athenian prince / Then sourly smil'd. – Dryden.
Discontentedly. – Brown.
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