sourness

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Sourness, she continued, is “a bizarro cue, a signal reliable neither for toxicity nor for nutrition.”

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2025

Sourness and saltiness are key indicators of under-extracted coffee, bitterness or dryness in the mouth often a marker of over-extraction.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2015

Because, of a Phaedrus, you seem to have become a Cato, there is so much Sourness in your Countenance.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

What vex'd them the more was, that it was wrote without Rancour or Peevishness; and, if not in a pleasant, at least in an open good-humour'd Manner, free, I dare say, from Pedantry and Sourness.

From A Letter to Dion by Viner, Jacob

He that is moderate in his Wishes from Reason and Choice, and not resigned from Sourness, Distaste, or Disappointment, doubles all the Pleasures of his Life.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph