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snide

[snahyd] / snaɪd /


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The chatbot would then produce a snide response parodying Chan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

As is the case throughout, the questioners—the chairman, played with snide malice by Michael McKean, is flanked by two “investigators”—are pious, bullying and laughably disingenuous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Plaza says that Waters is known for being provocative and loves reading tabloids but that he asked to tone down Armando’s snide put-downs of celebrities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

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

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2026

Mostly, he cataloged all the times Hassan had been an ass to him, all the times he'd been the butt of Hassan's jokes, all the snide little comments Hassan had made about his Katherining.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

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 Sir Samuel White Baker

The teak boxes for snider ammunition, also the boxes of Hale's rockets, were lined and hermetically sealed with soldered tin.

From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker

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 Sir Samuel White Baker

The strongest men were selected to carry the boxes of snider cartridges, which weighed 64 lbs. each.

From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker

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 Sir Samuel White Baker

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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