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View definitions for snipe

snipe

noun as in game bird

verb as in filch

verb as in jeer

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In 2023, the Guardian sniped “their shtick wears thin at times.”

Trump is resorting to the favorite response of lily-livered trolls everywhere: sniping insults at the better man from the safety of his computer screen.

From Salon

Now, Baldoni is alleging in his 179-page complaint that he is not at fault, and that the high-profile battle is "not a case about celebrities sniping at each other in the press".

From BBC

Their sold-out tour as a duo becomes a nightmare of onstage sniping.

As Beethoven is said to have sniped to his benefactor, the Austrian royal Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky, “Prince, what you are, you are by circumstance and birth. What I am, I am through myself.”

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

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