Soured

Examples

• But being soured, Mr Wegg, and driven to reckless madness and desperation, I suppose it's Yes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Her temper has been soured, remember, and ought not to be tried. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She seemed to be more soured and put out than distressed, by failing to find any traces of her daughter in these parts. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Yes, but hang it,' says Wegg argumentatively, 'a well-governed mind can be soured sitting! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Soured and listless, Miss Fanshawe was beginning to disclose the causes of her prostrate condition. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Miss Clapp, grown quite a young woman now, is declared by the soured old lady to be an unbearable and impudent little minx. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• These things may have soured Mrs. Catherick likely enough, but however that may be, she wouldn't hear of my taking the child away. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am so soured. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But my mind being soured with his other conduct, I continued to refuse. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• If I wasn't soured, my answer would be no. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Between you and me, I think there is some danger of my being just enough soured not to be able to do that. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Editor: Ramon