sour grapes
Example Sentences
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To atone, Ana-Maria says, they must eat sour grapes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Was it sour grapes, then, when Jamie Dimon called out private-credit firms over the recent spate of bankruptcies hitting banks?
From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025
If there were any sour grapes over his ouster, he didn't let it show.
From Salon • Dec. 12, 2024
I lacked sufficient objectivity to produce anything better than 200,000 words’ worth of sour grapes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2023
“Ha! Can you imagine the traffic on the interstate trying to get there?” says my mom, in a sour grapes kind of way.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
