cutting remark
Example Sentences
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The cutting remark of a pharmacist asked to fill prescriptions.
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2022
He was impatient with what he saw as his eldest son’s softness and extravagance, sometimes reducing the young man to tears with a cutting remark.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2021
When he asks for the letters back, Fleming tries to come up with a cutting remark but can’t, and hands them over without comment.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 30, 2014
The flick of a cutting remark, swiftly followed by “Just kidding!”
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2011
Johnny, in angry mouthfuls, told him what he thought about Dove and the charcoal, and threw in a cutting remark about Dusty.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
