shiv

Example Sentences

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This feels like a shiv aimed at Cassidy: The website undermines the claim that vaccines don’t cause autism and says the language remains only because of the promise Kennedy gave to Cassidy and no other.

From Los Angeles Times

Herculano-Houzel’s paper described T. rex as essentially wily enough to sharpen their own shivs.

From Los Angeles Times

His people have said he plans to be strategic with his criticisms — more shiv than sledgehammer.

From Seattle Times

And Shiv . . . shivs it, offering nothing of substance.

From Salon

So to be betrayed by someone he took under his wing is the deepest shiv someone could stick in him, especially on a Starfleet mission.

From New York Times