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snide

adjective as in hateful, nasty

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Raiders Coach Jon Gruden didn’t particularly want to discuss the topic, suggesting the maneuver might have been aimed at “a smart-aleck bus driver in Kansas City who made some snide comments when we got on the bus” and calling the issue “ridiculous.”

They can also be a bit snide, as distinct from being funny, about which talent more later.

In the following issue, The Group was the subject of a snide, imperious review by Norman Mailer.

She welcomed Jews into her cabinet, prompting the snide joke that she favored "Old Estonians over Old Etonians."

Again, I am not being snide but am actually looking for an answer.

For all the snide comments from the right, the word is getting passed on.

I guess I ain't told you much you don't know about your snide business.

You played a snide trick on me, anyway—lost your looks the second month and went dead like a punctured tire!

If I carn't keep upsides with the cackle of snide 'uns, dear Charlie, who can?

I am going away because I haven't any money, and I'm not going to be a snide and stay on here as your guest.

There are snide detectives just as there are shyster lawyers, quack doctors and dead-beat newspaper men.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to snide, such as: disparaging, sarcastic, sneering, unkind, base, and cynical.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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