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snide

[snahyd] / snaɪd /


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The doting boyfriend, the overzealous best friend, the snide coworker, the absentee mother — played here by Kristen Johnston, whose character’s name is ingeniously spelled “Beverlee.”

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

Then she treated Congress with snide hostility when it asked her to answer basic questions about it.

From Slate Apr. 3, 2026

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 Feb. 20, 2026

But where “The Monkey’s” snide sense of humor about its kills quickly grew smug, this time Perkins’ light touch — even during the most frightening moments — gives this slight film just the right proportionality.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2025

He showed up every day in the same rumpled sweater, the only one he owned, and almost every day there were snide remarks about it in the locker room.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Kabba Rega was delighted with the mechanism of Monsoor's snider rifle, which he at once understood and explained to his body-guard.

From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

The total, including that from the men's cartouche-boxes, was cartridges for snider rifles 4,540 and cartridges for muskets 4,330, making a total of 8,870 rounds.

From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

I only had the "Dutchman," and my attendant Monsoor carried a snider rifle; thus we were badly armed for so impenetrable a beast.

From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

The authorities at Woolwich had kindly supplied the expedition with 200 Hale's rockets—three-pounders—and fifty snider rifles, together with 50,000 rounds of snider ammunition.

From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

I served out fifteen rounds of snider ammunition per man to the 'Forty Thieves,' thus filling up their pouches to thirty rounds.

From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

We know this because Charles Dance recites Michelangelo’s snidest journal passages throughout, bringing a welcome pettiness to an otherwise staid chapter of art history.

From Salon May 16, 2026




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