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"sour grapes" Definitions
  1. pretended disdain for something one does not or cannot have: She said that she and her husband didn't want to join the club anyway, but it was clearly sour grapes.

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It was a strange performance that at first seemed like the worst kind of sour grapes: sour grapes bordering on slander.
French suspicions of cheating used to seem like sour grapes.
Trump dismisses such assertions as sour grapes about his victory.
Alex and Sebastien Alex: It's far more than sour grapes.
So do you think this is this just sour grapes?
Naturally, his opponents think all of this is sour grapes.
West Virginia has a "sore loser" or "sour grapes" law.
The recent scandals, he said, seem like Democratic sour grapes.
"Sour grapes," agreed Roger Noel, 65, sitting next to him.
" Cruz campaign spokeswoman Catherine Frazier dismissed the complaints as "sour grapes.
And so it's tempting to dismiss his testimony as sour grapes.
The ebullient Mr Vucic waves such accusations off as sour grapes.
He dismissed Democratic complaints as sour grapes from their election loss.
But they dismiss the criticism as little more than sour grapes.
Rightly or not, that smacks of protectionism, sour grapes or both.
He feels like this in unfair, sour grapes on her part.
"Green" is a good example and "Sour Grapes", is a perfect example.
This is just sour grapes, says Pekka Pystynen, a retired former executive.
"West Virginia does have a sore losers, sour grapes law," he said.
To some, the comments by Federer, 37, may sound like sour grapes.
In such circumstances, Walmart could be forgiven a severe attack of sour grapes.
"You're just crying sour grapes because we foreclosed on you," Lynch said, smirking.
The congressional action was viewed more as sour grapes and not altogether realistic.
Hence his parting broadside, which was roughly 290% sour grapes … and 26% valid concerns.
Indeed, Cruz does not expect significant sour grapes from the primary once emotions thaw.
Hossa's flimsy, sour grapes rationale is the worst of the arguments against reviewing offside.
It may be a case of sour grapes—and fair enough, given his situation.
Mostly I wanted the journalist to know: Any other angle is just sour grapes.
Ms. Pelosi's aides say the comments are merely sour grapes over a policy dispute.
"You're not going to get any sour grapes from us," Canada's Brent Laing said.
John Cornyn, R-Texas, dismissed the Democratic outcry as sour grapes over the election results.
But they blame the problem mostly on sour grapes from those who supported rival candidates.
Of course, if you want some gloriously sour grapes lottery stories, we've got those, too.
My thought bubble: Normally I ignore such cash grabs, as they reek of sour grapes.
But at least one Republican legislator acknowledged that the move would look like sour grapes.
Mr. Khan has denied that accusation, chalking up the accusations of meddling to sour grapes.
Sour grapes are made from facts like these: 65,853,514 Americans, or 48.18% voted for Clinton.
They couldn't be dismissed as knee-jerk opponents of Nixon or as sour-grapes McGovernites.
Their anger and unhinged rants are one part dystopian drama and one part just sour grapes.
"A suit by a losing opponent, for example, would be regarded as 'sour grapes,'" he says.
He agrees that the small-house policy is contentious, but only because "people have sour grapes".
Sour grapes and guerilla warfare when the elites aren't satisfied with the choices of ordinary Americans?
Trump has dismissed suggestions of links with Moscow as Democratic sour grapes for losing the election.
Of course, much of this could have been sour grapes from a disgruntled minority of engineers.
Despite his sour grapes, Trump is actually winning and benefitted in earlier primaries from some GOP rules.
Moscow denies any such activity, which Trump has dismissed as sour grapes by the Democrats he defeated.
I know the twitter trolls will claim we suffer from sour grapes, that we are sore losers.
To enact broader internet regulations because of the Democratic Party's sour grapes is the definition of foolishness.
Sour grapes because I called out W. on his horrible war and Jeb on his terrible campaign.
At trial, Facebook said ZeniMax concocted its claims because of "sour grapes" over missing the VR trend.
West Virginia's "sore loser" or "sour grapes" law appears designed to head off efforts like Mr. Blankenship's.
"IAC basically called the whole thing sour grapes, and I'm inclined to agree with them," Cramer said.
Tyrese tells us this is all B.S., and the restraining order is sour grapes from him getting remarried.
Republicans also say there is an element of sour grapes because Graham's side ultimately won the Kavanaugh fight.
Jobs's reported description of the firm as a "feature, not a product" might not have been sour grapes.
I headed down to ask the attendees whether the demonstration was just a big case of sour grapes.
And although this sounds like sour grapes, that kind of money probably wouldn't make you or me happy either.
And no, this isn't just sour grapes from a biter Canadian fan – I tweeted this out before overtime started.
But this is not going down well with the Leave camp, which essentially accuses such economists of sour grapes.
The West Virginia legislature passed a separate "sour grapes" law in March, which went into effect after 85033 days.
We should pay attention to the things she wishes she had done differently, not dismiss them as sour grapes.
The West Virginia legislature passed a separate "sour grapes" law in March, which went into effect after 90 days.
Democrats are likely to gather around tubs of sour grapes with the release of the good economic good news.
But most of the complaining from teams is sour grapes, or players not knowing the specifics of the rulebook.
" Gabrielle said that for many who heard the whispers, Emma's story had been recast as a tale of "sour grapes.
Some argued that even the suggestion represented a divisive line that amounted to little more than sour grapes about losing.
After losing the vote the pair decided to halt operations in the Texan city, which some derided as sour grapes.
Honestly, I was expecting more cattiness and sour grapes from a group of people accustomed to being marginalized and rejected.
You might see them as sour grapes from people unwilling to turn the page from a bitter and divisive campaign.
However — indulge while we engage with our inner Carrie Bradshaw here — one has to wonder if Lansbury is declaring sour grapes.
Indeed, there has been disquiet about the process before, among both Republicans and Democrats, and not always because of sour grapes.
As I noted above, Mike Hearn's swan song may have been 70% sour grapes–but it was 30% completely valid concerns.
Sam Lopez, 55, a Republican who lives in nearby Shelby Township, saw Mr. Romney's attack as a case of sour grapes.
Nothing better shows how liberal attacks on the Electoral College amount to nothing more than sour grapes and constitutional cherry-picking.
These acts, when all put together, aren't just the typical sour grapes you hear from a party that lost an election.
Apple's sour grapes and defensive language are out of place here, and a mea culpa would have behooved the company better.
We spoke to Jerry Rothwell, co-director of Sour Grapes, about Kurniawan and why his story stands out among other wine imposters.
That tends to drop out of interviews, because you're like, "Oh, he's just sour grapes," because everything else was pretty amazing. Yeah.
Trump has dismissed such talk as little more than sour grapes by Democrats who cannot accept his upset victory on Nov. 8.
Sour grapes aside, litigation is not a game where the loser may refuse to accept the result and refile the same claims.
" But when it comes to the House impeachment inquiry, Graham says "this whole Ukrainian BS is just sour grapes [from] sore losers.
If it sounds like sour grapes, it's not -- we're told it's more comical to Calvin, who also feels like he dodged a bullet.
The drumbeat will come as 'old news; that's all settled; this is media sour grapes for getting it all wrong; it's presidential harassment!
George Karl has a book coming out and it is chock full of stupid, sour-grapes shit about the star players he coached.
We watch Sour Grapes, which was 10/10 and then I have another movie night date with V. and we watch Marriage Story.
COVINGTON, La. — "Sour grapes," explained Bob Marino, 79, weighing in on the recent spycraft bombshell from the corner table of a local McDonald's.
It doesn't seem to be sour grapes, though ... because Hunter told us he's proud of Monica for making the most of the situation.
In that reality, resistance isn't about mindless obstruction by people blinded by the pain of ideological defeat or people gorging on sour grapes.
The whole thing was a little difficult, a little embarrassing — no one wants to be seen as the angry woman, squeezing sour grapes.
This is not simply liberal sour grapes, though I'm sure many Trump supporters and self-defining "open-minded" liberals will characterize it as such.
But Trump, and those around him, has an unsettling tendency to see dissent as inherently illegitimate — sour grapes at best and sedition at worst.
As Weiner's Twitter thread began to get more attention, some observers took her position to be nothing more than a case of sour grapes.
Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, said Democrats were being "sour grapes" because they lost the election and he hadn't seen anything about Bannon that was problematic.
Jakarta-born Rudy Kurniawan, who is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence in California, is now the subject of a new documentary, Sour Grapes.
Given the highly-anticipated release of Spider-Man: Homecoming this summer with its diverse and charismatic young cast, Dunst's comments seem like textbook sour grapes.
Sour grapes about the federal government's byzantine contracting process are not unusual, but personal intervention by the president against a perceived political opponent generally is.
Arguments against meritocracy, then, often come off sounding like sour grapes, or like a call to return to a world of landed gentry and feudalism.
The film may as well be about any regular joe named Arthur who had a very bad day or week and then turned sour grapes.
In his Twitter posting on Thursday, Mr. Trump suggested that the government's conclusions on Russian hacking were a case of sour grapes by Mr. Obama.
"I do think there is a certain amount of sour grapes in this and people are trying to make excuses for Hillary Clinton's loss," Paul said.
Trump presented Romney's stance as mere sour grapes, after Romney's unsuccessful 2012 bid for the presidency as the GOP nominee, and scoffed at his professed faith.
" She says the real reason Rhymefest went on the attack was sour grapes ... "You were trying to get Kanye to listen to your sub par beats.
Democrats said the measures, passed after an all-night session on party-line votes last week, were sour grapes meant to weaken the incoming Democratic administration.
" In reply, Trump tweeted: "I won big and he didn't," while Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) recently dismissed Romney's critique as a case of "sour grapes.
It wasn't just bureaucratic hiccups or sour grapes that angered staffers in his charge, which could be understandable for a new boss in a tumultuous administration.
Conway went on to argue that any criticism of Trump or Bannon's views or rhetoric on race were either untrue or sour grapes from the losing side.
TLC pulled the plug on "19 Kids & Counting" after Josh Duggar's child molestation scandal broke in 2015 -- so Dillard's comments do smack a little of sour grapes.
It is time for Democrats to let go of their sour grapes from the election and support the nominee the American people want on the Supreme Court.
While the idea that the election is rigged could be dismissed as sour grapes — after all, candidates leading the polls rarely make such claims — it's gaining traction.
Clinton's comment about being held to different standards may read like sour grapes to some, especially those who want a full-throated apology for her campaign missteps.
We had said after Mr. Kenyatta's re-election had been initially confirmed that challenging it was a matter of sour grapes that could lead to ethnic strife.
Jordan, for example, argued that Cohen was bitter over not getting a White House job and was lying to defame the president now out of sour grapes.
Rather than spend time on sour grapes, I think it's more productive to make a clear-eyed appraisal of what his administration might mean for my industry.
State media has accused the West of sour grapes over China's prominent role in Africa and has angrily rejected claims of forcing African countries into a debt trap.
Cruz campaign spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said the campaign had won "because we've put in the hard work to build a superior organization," dismissing the complaints as sour grapes.
All of these things are a great head start because you are already avoiding one of the biggest mistakes a person can make in life: destructive sour grapes!
"It sounds like sour grapes to me," the incoming president of Florida's Senate and an elector, Joe Negron of Stuart, said about the movement to change electors' stripes.
"Perhaps some people or forces are unwilling to help Africa themselves and have a feeling of sour grapes about the achievements of China's cooperation with Africa," Wang said.
" But Friedman added: "From our standpoint, being that we were one of the teams involved, it sounds like sour grapes for us to comment too much on this.
They add that a separate "sour grapes" state law that was enacted in June cannot be applied retroactively to block him from running as a third-party candidate.
In the end, Shaunae Miller is the gold-medal winner in the 400m and there's nothing anyone can do about it except cry foul and have some sour grapes.
Although she didn't win the contest—"I remember feeling a little bit sour grapes about it"—it gave her the boost she needed to venture out on her own.
But if you're a long-suffering fan of the Falcons, who have never won a title in 51 seasons, it's not just sour grapes to say your boys were cheated.
The legal team representing Facebook and Oculus, in turn, suggested that ZeniMax's claims were "sour grapes," and the result of embarrassment for not recognizing the potential market of virtual reality.
The trade war tit-for-tat has been mocked as the "Pinot pipe" war, and inter-provincial "sour grapes," and has stirred speculation about what goods might be targeted next.
The chief of staff's backers largely dismiss the name-calling as sour grapes from people in Trump's orbit who feel Kelly has cut down on their access to the president.
The problem for Clinton is that no matter the merit of what she says, lots and lots of people will write it off to sour grapes and ignore it. 33.
Mr. Trump and his top advisers have dismissed the accusations about Russian collusion as sour grapes from Democrats and an intelligence community that the president repeatedly criticized during the transition.
If this imbalance were limited to a single chamber of the legislature, or a single election cycle, the Democrats' frequent carping about a stacked electoral deck might sound like sour grapes.
In both cases the loser was a Democrat, a fact that has tempted more than a few people to dismiss complaints about the Electoral College as nothing but partisan sour grapes.
And, Republicans and independents need to know that holding Trump accountable is not a sour grapes pursuit to relitigate 2016, or born out of maddening personal hatred of the man himself.
EINAR OVERBYEProfessor in political scienceOslo Metropolitan University Sour grapes were not staples of The Economist's diet before 2016, but have become a common dish since the Brexit referendum went against its wishes.
However it's not all sour grapes for wine lovers, with the 2019 wine quality expected to be good as smaller grape berries tend to have a greater concentration of flavors, said Viljoen.
If we wanted to feel a twang of self-loathing every time we looked in the mirror, we'd almost be tempted to say something along the lines of: "Talk about sour grapes!"
The guv's spokesperson tells TMZ that's just sour grapes, and HRC could have upped her chances to win if she'd found what Johnson's 4 million supporters were looking for in a candidate.
For the separatists, however, Tabàrnia is an irrelevant case of sour grapes, coming after an election that failed to yield the decisive blow to Catalonia's independence movement that Mr. Rajoy had anticipated.
Augmented reality startup Nreal is asking a court to throw out a lawsuit from Magic Leap, saying the heavily touted startup's suit amounts to sour grapes rather than a breach of contract.
Reber wasn't expressing sour grapes, necessarily, but rather a desire to fulfill his original vision for the app, which included building out features like shared folders and cross-team collaboration, for example.
Doug Collins of Georgia said the contempt motion was due to sour grapes among Democrats because the Mueller report did not find that the Trump administration colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
When the super PAC intensified its spending on advertising critical of Mr. Rubio, in an attempt to prop up Mr. Bush's flagging campaign, party elders cried foul, saying it looked like sour grapes.
He added that as long as Republicans, who control the House, and the public at large believes impeachment is about sour grapes for Democrats, then it will be useless to press for it.
He told Popular Science, "At the risk of sounding like sour grapes, it's important for the public to know that the one deepest point in our world's oceans is a flat, featureless plain."
Mr. Penn considered such criticism to be sour grapes by advisers who were held hostage by the left wing of the party, unable to see the popular middle and resentful of his ascendance.
And despite the questions about his financial ties, Parscale still finds himself in good standing with the President's family and those close to him said questions about his money amount to sour grapes.
As for the criticism that Rubio was too reliant on his excellent stump speech, that seemed like sour grapes from campaigns that were desperately searching for even one speech that connected with voters.
But regardless of whether you view these efforts as proper and legitimate uses of Constitutional authority, sour grapes or just democracy's version of primal scream therapy, don't expect any reversal of November's overall result.
Carmack's suit claims "sour grapes" on ZeniMax's part in not paying back the money he says he is owed, something that has caused Carmack "serious injury" to the tune of more than $22.5 million.
Yes, but: That's against the state's so-called "sore loser" or "sour grapes" law, which prohibits primary candidates who ran for office and lost from launching a third-party bid in the general election.
WILFRED FROST: David, do you think that's a little bit of sour grapes there from Mr. Buffett, given the success your industry had in attracting more assets under management in the last couple of decades?
Despite that film being directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins, Mr. Cameron declared that it was "just male Hollywood doing the same old thing" — a statement that had the whiff of sour grapes about it.
The other side's point of view -- that Microsoft had a monopoly on PC operating systems, and was using the power of that monopoly to squash competition -- simply sounded like sour grapes from competitors in Silicon Valley.
"It used to be that these filmmakers would get up on the box and people believed they were just starting to cry sour grapes, and they did so under potential threat of being blacklisted," Anthony said.
"These requests for en banc review are sour grapes from industry dead-enders who are determined to dismantle the FCC's successful Net Neutrality rules in spite of their many failed attempts," Wood said in a statement.
" He continued, "All countries are doing this, but we've elevated this to a higher degree, and we've made this all about the sour grapes of Hillary Clinton losing the election, and it's all about partisan politics now.
The race was no thriller, with Vettel third and the top six finishing in starting order, but the outcome still delivered a hammer blow for Ferrari, whose immediate public response had a distinct whiff of sour grapes.
If I'm honest, and therefore critical, I may sound like an opportunist, because an easy solution would be to promote me into a leadership position, or assumed to have sour grapes because I'm not already in one.
"This was a witch hunt that began with the Obama administration, sour grapes on the way out the door," Paul said Tuesday of the reported requested unmasking of Trump campaign officials by former national security adviser Susan Rice.
Ward talked to TMZ Sports and said that's all sour grapes ... and he's more than willing to do it again, but warns that this time, he's had 12 rounds of schooling on the guy -- and that's bad news.
Few in Congress have fallen in line with the Trump administration's call to dismiss these reports as "fake news," and so the longer the Russia issue drags on, the further the spin will shift away from partisan sour grapes.
The defense: Match, which has always owned Tinder, argues in a new court filing that this is just sour grapes from those who sold their shares too soon and is asking a New York court to dismiss the lawsuit.
To the president and his supporters, the arguments from critics amount to sour grapes, an effort by an impeachment-crazed opposition to play down the success of a focused, successful clandestine operation that echoed the killing of Osama bin Laden.
And he dropped a couple of potty words after the game about an official whom he blamed for the loss—which, while highly amusing, sounded like sour grapes and are certain to cost Kelce a pretty little fine from the league.
Surely not the sort of thing the fans who scraped together ~$45,000 want to hear — and perhaps a bit of sour grapes for a device that generated some buzz, but failed to hit its target in a sea of foldable and 5G phones.
After this season's first three episodes, where she did little more than talk about how amazing she is and how terrible all the other girls are, she was the second queen to be eliminated—and had nothing but sour grapes to share afterward.
This could be a classic case of sour grapes -- after all, Moniece didn't get an invite to the wedding -- but on her way out of seeing a movie with Milan Christopher ... she claimed Ray's got no shot at being a one woman man.
"Constant calls to change the electoral college after a popular vote win/electoral college loss can seem like sour grapes, and the attempt to abolish it would require a constitutional amendment that could be stopped by 13 states," he argues on his website.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Taiwan has a case of sour grapes, Chinese state media said on Wednesday, after the self-ruled island accused China of using a $3-billion aid pledge to persuade the Dominican Republic to switch long-standing diplomatic ties to Beijing.
"This again is just sour grapes from the establishment who have had the power stripped out of theirs hands by a candidate that they do not like because he has managed to do something they have been unable to do for decades," Pierson said.
Just as strangely, Trump acted as if Comey's testimony was a scandal that resulted from sour grapes over the 2016 election when, in fact, it is one of his own making—Trump fired Comey because he thought it would make the Russia investigation go away.
It could be argued that Trump's sour grapes gambit is a smart move to recapture the media spotlight, and to rally his dispirited supporters by showing that he has a fighting heart—that he remains a pugilist who is willing to do whatever it takes to win.
It could be sour grapes, then, that Barton has nothing nice to say about the show in a new interview with The Ringer, which is a must-read if you have the slightest interest in her thoughts on TV psychics and posting tone-deaf Instagram messages.
Was it, in fact, what women did want, to the tune of almost $300 million, and was I some sour-grapes outlier grumbling about how condescending I found the clunky ease of the whole thing, up to a twist that made the already happy ending even happier?
Rad (who was dismissed from the Company a year ago) and Mr. Mateen (who has not been with the Company in years) may not like the fact that Tinder has experienced enormous success following their respective departures, but sour grapes alone do not a lawsuit make.
The Sanders camp is already cooking up a sour grapes story on that, with supporters gearing up to complain about how rigged the Democratic superdelegate process is (and maybe so: Democrats have superdelegates overriding voters and Republicans have voter ID and voter suppression, all parties being equally shady).
In fact, Facebook's sour grapes fermented into one giant, steaming crater of w(h)ine: Throughout the DeepMind challenge, during which Google's AlphaGo machine faced off against human world champion Lee Sedol, Yann LeCun, Facebook's director of artificial intelligence research, lobbed a number of pointed barbs at Google's pet project.
And opposition that conflates the risks of conservative policies with those of democratic breakdown — say, by reacting to Betsy DeVos (who embraces vouchers for private schools) and Michael Flynn (who embraces insane conspiracy theories) as equivalent threats — trivializes constitutional concerns and makes it easier to dismiss complaints as losers' sour grapes.
I mean, she's not wrong on any of those points, but as Asia O'Hara pointed out, even if you feel that way you keep it to yourself until your confessional interview because she doesn't need the other bitches squishing sour grapes into her ears like they're trying to make a really salty malbec.
It's not like I expected them to be sour grapes about Jeff Bezos, but just to have such a quick turnaround was ... I figured there'd be a honeymoon period where you've got money and someone who says they want to invest and they've been losing assets, losing people for a long time.
John Kennedy O'Connor, a journalist who has written books on the Eurovision Song Contest, said Lazarev was "the hottest favorite I've ever known in the contest" but his entry "crashed and burned," finishing third behind Australia's Dami Im. "So there's sour grapes on one side, and then you've got political anger on the other," he said, of Russia's disappointment.
Don Blankenship's bid to appear on the Senate ballot as a third-party candidate has been denied by Mac Warner, West Virginia Secretary of State, who argues that the bit would violate the state's "sore loser" or "sour grapes" law, which says a candidate who lost in the primary is prohibited from launching a bid in the general election.
But Brexit supporters described his comments as sour grapes and said he should be replaced by someone who was more positive about Britain's prospects outside the EU. With May's end of March deadline to trigger the formal EU divorce procedure approaching, her reticence over her strategy may be contributing to a lack of coordination among staff in government departments, say experts on the British bureaucracy.
The reactions, for example, to Zack Cozart expressing concern about both the effect that a hypothetical embrace of The Opener would have on gameplay and the possible salary-repressing motivations behind the Rays embracing this tactic were roundly dismissive, writing off his complaints as the sour grapes of a player who saw his job as a hitter on the verge of getting more difficult.
Don't get me wrong there's certainly a lot to worry about over at Snap — those poor user numbers, a string of executive exits and a strange u-turn on a recent hire — but this lawsuit looks to be little more than sour grapes from investors who either didn't fully understand the space they invested in, or simply made a poor decision to back Snap at whatever price they did.
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