- sour grapes as a noun:
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sour grapes
noun
1 sour grapes
Disparagement of something that is unattainable.
Roget 471: impossibility etc. adj.; what cannot, what can never be; sour grapes; hopelessness etc. 859.
Roget 617: pretext, pretense, pretension, plea†; allegation, advocation; ostensible motive, ostensible ground, ostensible reason, phony reason; excuse etc. (vindication) 937; ... show more
Polish: kwaĆne winogrona
Moby thesaurus: acid, acidulant, belittling, bread-and-butter pickle, chokecherry, comedown, contempt, crab apple, decrial, depreciation, derogation, detraction, dill pickle, disapproval, discrediting, disgrace, disparagement, faint praise, green apple, indignity ... show more.
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