- Belittle - Decry God’s first appearance in Paradise Lost - Insult - Malign - Run down outside display garage - Sour grapes - To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an
unequal marriage.
- Acrid taste - Acrimony - Rancour - Sent tribes off, caused acrimony - Sour grapes - The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid,
in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness;
severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or
vexation of mind. - A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.
- The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike;
craftiness; shrewdness. - The state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay;
deterioration. - A coarse and sour taste in grapes.
- The sour juice of crab apples, of green or unripe grapes,
apples, etc.; also, an acid liquor made from such juice. - Tartness; sourness, as of disposition.
- Cunning - Devious - Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or
looks; wily. - Having the color of a fox; of a yellowish or reddish brown
color; -- applied sometimes to paintings when they have too much of
this color. - Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smeelling. - Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not
properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of
the fox grape.
- Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in many kinds
of grapes. It is also obtained from tartaric acid, with which it is
isomeric, and from sugar, gum, etc., by oxidation. It is a sour white
crystalline substance, consisting of a combination of dextrorotatory
and levorotatory tartaric acids.