SOURLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sourly mean? 

• SOURLY (adverb)
  The adverb SOURLY has 1 sense:

1. in a sour manner

  Familiarity information: SOURLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOURLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a sour manner

Context example:

he complained sourly that the new rules only benefitted the managers

Pertainym:

sour (showing a brooding ill humor)

 Context examples 

He looked at me sourly enough but said nothing.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I watched her for nearly half-an-hour: during all that time she never turned a page, and her face grew momently darker, more dissatisfied, and more sourly expressive of disappointment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You must remember, said Summerlee, sourly, that I have a large class in London who are at present at the mercy of an extremely inefficient locum tenens.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Last January, rid of all mistresses—in a harsh, bitter frame of mind, the result of a useless, roving, lonely life—corroded with disappointment, sourly disposed against all men, and especially against all womankind (for I began to regard the notion of an intellectual, faithful, loving woman as a mere dream), recalled by business, I came back to England.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)