What is "sourness"

Usage examples of "sourness".

He swallowed the exceeding sourness of a retort undelivered, together with the feeling that she beat him in the wrangle by dint of her being an unreasonable wench.

Physical facts, like resistance, sourness, redness, are accessible to everyone.

Their dead child lives on with them as a silent glue of guilt and shame, an inexpungeable sourness at the bottom of things.

Exploitation had left nothing but sourness and acid rains which, even as he watched, came to add more corrosion to the thick pane and the metal in which it was set.

The stationery store was like a beautiful cave, always cool, always full of intriguing objects: where the soda fountain was, which gave off another distinct odour, ran a thick marble slab which turned sour in the summer time and yet mingled pleasantly, the sourness, with the slightly ticklish, dry smell of the carbonated water when it was fizzed into the glass of ice cream.

The sourness that she had felt over Glinda's betrayal was ameliorated by Boq's common courtesy and direct speech.

And, she conceded with just a hint of sourness, Paulo d'Arezzo's, too, if she counted the electronic warfare subsection.

The little cafe was unusually busy today, and he wondered with a sourness that would have done credit to Floris if it was because word of their confrontation the day before had spread.

It was hard to tell if his sourness resulted from the fact that a gynocratic society had not been smashed, or if the tone belonged to his interaction with Slade earlier.

Sourness, which is distinctly undesirable, can be detected (in the form of hydrochloric acid) in a solution of i part in 130,000.

Judging by the sourness of his smell, he had already puked at least once, and the stains on the front of his pants meant that he hadn’t been as careful as he should have been when he’d peed.