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Recent Examples of sourly
Beckham's relationship with the organization ended sourly when he was traded to the Cleveland Browns.
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Ernesto Cova, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
The game ended sourly for the Chargers, as the Rams, led by quarterback Stetson Bennett IV, drove 75 yards on 10 plays for the winning touchdown.
—Daniel Popper, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
At the police station in South Northburn, Chief Bob Perkins looked sourly at Brad Crabbit.
—Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
Ernesto Cova, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
The game ended sourly for the Chargers, as the Rams, led by quarterback Stetson Bennett IV, drove 75 yards on 10 plays for the winning touchdown.
—Daniel Popper, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
At the police station in South Northburn, Chief Bob Perkins looked sourly at Brad Crabbit.
—Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sourly
Adverb
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People can be seen running along the top of the bus and sitting on the front bumper as the driver stares glumly ahead from inside windows tagged with graffiti.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the conservative nonprofit American Action Forum, has watched glumly as Republicans have drifted away from their small-government traditions.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Like a fisherman left empty-handed after a heavy pull at her line, the woman sullenly took Sam’s picture.—
Nora DeLigter,
Curbed,
6 Mar. 2026
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Instead, Republican staffers sullenly reported to messaging meetings to talk about immigration.—
Michael Scherer,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Did DeSantis call Uthmeier on the carpet and sternly instruct him to follow the law?—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 Mar. 2026
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After sternly addressing the company executives who put the city through a year-long court battle, the Leavenworth Planning Commission on Monday evening voted 5-1 to recommend granting CoreCivic’s zoning application to operate for at least three years.—
Matthew Kelly
February 3,
Kansas City Star,
3 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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For their part, Democratic leaders spoke mournfully of limits, of energy shortages, of national decline, of a crisis of confidence itself.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Based on the Dylan Thomas prose poem of the same name, published in 1952, the film lovingly and mournfully depicts the boyhood Christmastime of an old Welshman, tenderly and a tad mischievously embodied by Elliott.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
21 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Tarun would tease her, and my mother would look sorrowfully toward Kavitha, as if the two of them now shared some womanly burden.—
Madhuri Vijay,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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There’s ample gore and jumpy moments, but the true scariness here is of the forlorn kind; leads Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen play the mounting nightmare with ache and desperation, elevating the emotional tenor of a dolefully eerie movie.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The video of Hodges crying out plaintively is the antithesis of how a cop wants to be seen.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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Mia plaintively asks Philip at one particularly vulnerable moment.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Adverb
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In Time Regained, the concluding volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, an older version of the narrator gloomily decides to attend a gathering at the Guermantes’ mansion.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Sourly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sourly. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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