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SOUR GRAPEISM

Specialty Definition: SOUR GRAPEISM

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Sour Grapeism An assumed contempt or indifference to the unattainable. (See above.)
"There, economy was always `elegant' and money-spending always `vulgar' and ostentalous- a sort of sour grapeism which made us very peaceful and satisfied."- Mrs. Gaskell: Cranford, chap. i. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SOUR GRAPEISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: superorgasm.

-2 letters: armigerous, semigroups.

-3 letters: armigeros, armouries, gouramies, grampuses, primroses, progerias, promisers, rosariums, semigroup, superiors, umpirages, upraisers.

-4 letters: argosies, armigero, armigers, armoires, armories, arousers, aspersor, aspirers, epigrams, gisarmes, gossamer, gossiper, gouramis, graspers, grassier, griseous, groupers, groupies, grousers, grumpier, imposers, impresas, isograms, meropias, mispages, misparse, misusage, morrises, ogreisms, pirogues, praisers, primages, primeros, primrose, primuses, prioress.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: superorganism.

 

+2 letters: superorganisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SOUR GRAPEISM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4F 55 52      47 52 41 50 45 49 53 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001111 01010101 01010010 00100000 01000111 01010010 01000001 01010000 01000101 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#79 &#85 &#82 &#32 &#71 &#82 &#65 &#80 &#69 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 0055 0052      0047 0052 0041 0050 0045 0049 0053 004D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5349555224152355039435347

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