souring

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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A sour wine, moreover, or a souring, for its influence on the mood of those who drank it was to make them gloomy. — A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice; and thence, besides souring and spoiling the conversation, is productive of disgusts and, perhaps enmities where you may have occasion for friendship. — Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice; and thence, besides souring and spoiling the conversation, is productive of disgusts and, perhaps, enmities where you may have occasion for friendship. — Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes, Charles Madison Curry

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