sourly
- r in a sour manner
he complained sourly that the new rules only benefitted the managers
- He could be a backwoods minister, warning of the Apocalypse in an Old Testament voice, or Satan himself, smiling sourly at the world's capacity for hurting itself.
- In the issue of July 8, 1946, PTI sourly noted: "The Soviet Union has a social system of its own but borrows from others .
- Soviet delegates did not secede from the association, as some feared they would, but greeted the censure sourly.