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sour grapes

noun as in affected scorn

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But it’s self-defeating for Democrats to dismiss her story as sour grapes.

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In a statement on Wednesday, Fox News said that the complaint is sour grapes from a network that’s failing to find an audience.

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On the other hand, it sounds like sour grapes when he says that he never had the opportunity to show that he was able to play.

If there were any sour grapes over his ouster, he didn't let it show.

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“I think it’s f**king hilarious. Hilarious to watch the swamp struggle with the existential crisis that’s been shoved in their faces by the American people,” Santos said, chalking up the pushback to sour grapes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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