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snide comment

A remark or comment that is particularly mocking, scornful, or derogatory. Savita was ecstatic over her acceptance to law school, but John's snide comment about her ability to succeed really undermined her confidence. Sarah always sits at the back of these team meetings making snide comments about whatever the boss is saying.
See also: comment, snide

snide remark

A remark or comment that is particularly mocking, scornful, or derogatory. Savita was ecstatic over her acceptance to law school, but John's snide remark about her ability to succeed really undermined her confidence. Sarah always sits at the back of these team meetings making snide remarks about whatever the boss is saying.
See also: remark, snide
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snide remark

n. a caustic, haughty, or insulting remark. You’re really quick with the snide remark. Ever say anything nice to anybody?
See also: remark, snide
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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References in periodicals archive
A heretical substitute For the Christian gospel, gnostic interpretation has nothing to do with serious New Testament scholarship, which Spong snidely calls twisting our brains into a 1st-century pretzel.
Yet, when you pick up the square-shaped piece of paper, the other side snidely says, " As you picked this up, you can pick up the litter off the streets as well."
Hayek is Snidely Whiplash, the hired gun from the Austrian School.
When the BBC showed civilian victims of Allied bombing in Iraq, Tory MPs shrieked "treachery", while snidely referring to the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation.
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High and low are constantly at odds with one another--the husband snidely refers to the lover not as "Percy Shelley," a poet better than himself, but as baseball legend "Dizzy Dean," the truer rival, as showmanship and celebrity-culture make for a more fitting parallel with the world of Broadway.
"Did you read that in Bella," her solicitor husband snidely asks.
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When the narrator of Henry James' novella, "The Aspern Papers", takes a gondola ride through 19th-century Venice, he rather snidely refers to the city outside his boat as "the bright Venetian picture".
But the strongest link is Gruen's use of melodrama--though her Snidely Whiplash-type characters--seemed much more at home in Water's 1930s travelling circus than in a modern-day language research lab.
Snidely describing him as "part military dictator, part sheepdog," she tries to paint him as a dubious digger after career gold, self-serving and self-promoting: "Sam Steele arrived in Dawson determined to burnish his reputation there, so from the start he exaggerated the wickedness he discovered while publicizing his own achievements."
A friend of mine snidely commented "good luck, that corn is in everything." His sarcasm only spurred me to take the challenge personally.
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