| 单词 | sour-grapeism |
| 释义 | > as lemmassour-grapeism sour-grapeism n. the action or practice of disparaging something because it is out of one's reach. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > [noun] > envy > disparaging because out of one's reach sour-grapeism1853 sour-grapiness1970 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford i. 5 There, economy was always ‘elegant’, and money-spending always ‘vulgar and ostentatious’; a sort of sour grapeism which made us very peaceful and satisfied. 1957 R. W. Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. (new ed.) ix. ii. 307 The suffix is added to syntactic word groups..in such formations as sour-grapeism, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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