gibes

With the extent of that perceived boost now in question, some of those same figures greeted Biden’s announcement with veiled and not-so-veiled gibes.

The fact someone — whose motive and ideology remain unclear — sought to end his life has led to inevitable gibes about roosting chickens.

Gunderson said the self-deprecating gibes emerged from a character “she was using as a position of power to comment on the plight of woman.”

That drew a daylong series of gibes on social media, with Ukrainians pointing out that Moscow had suffered a series of humiliating defeats in the nearly one year since launching the full-scale invasion.

Yet Haire, the former GOP chair, noted that Hogan did his fair share of belittling adversaries, such as calling the 2022 Republican gubernatorial nominee not “mentally stable,” among other gibes.