snide

Example Sentences

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I wasn’t usually droll enough, snide enough, quick enough, and I swelled with pride at the achievement.

From Literature

I’m so used to Karly’s snide remarks that I assume she’s being sarcastic.

From Literature

Those prompts uncorked snide comments from members — “Traitor!” someone yelled when the television flashed an image of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett — that turned the atmosphere in the room from reserved to suddenly rollicking.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Holmes does not quote Auden’s snide remark, but in some ways his book addresses the modern snobbism that shadows Tennyson.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ms. Jackson is no apologist—her James has flaws aplenty—but where prior historians offered snide caricature, she portrays a complex leader who was “intelligent, resilient, idiosyncratic, irascible, guileful and witty.”

From The Wall Street Journal