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Definition of snide in English: snideadjective snʌɪdsnaɪd 1Derogatory or mocking in an indirect way. snide remarks about my mother Example sentencesExamples - Sarah couldn't help but make the snide and sarcastic remark to him to show her hatred.
- I am sick to death of the snide remarks and comments.
- She made snide remarks to the stewardesses and sneered at the little kid across the row.
- Then they sat at the side and spent the rest of the rehearsal making (what appeared from a distance to be) snide remarks.
- I'd make snide remarks to him, snub him, give him disparaging looks and he usually responded by ignoring my bad behavior and avoiding me.
- Some marched past him, giving him anything from a passing glance to a narrow eyed stare of contempt and a snide remark.
- They may be regarded by their fellow pupils as arrogant and over-ambitious, and be subjected, possibly, to snide remarks and even bullying.
- So far, all the snide remarks made by the press and by other party politicians have been entirely without substance.
- As I walked away, she made a snide remark about me to the others while I was still within earshot.
- It disgusts me that one of the best songwriters of his generation is being treated as the butt of jokes and victim of snide remarks.
- I go to the counter and give the cheque to a guy who definitely did not have enough sleep last night and was in a mood for nasty snide remarks and evil glares.
- One has to put up with snide remarks and comments.
- The four of us mocked the commercials and trailers resoundingly, and I made the odd snide remark to Ben that I heard my other companion laughing at.
- Amanda makes snide remarks to Sharon about marrying her brother.
- Sure there will be snide remarks aplenty about those 30th anniversary celebrations.
- He felt guilty for pushing her to her limits and sarcastically making his snide remarks.
- There cannot be a greater injustice to our incoming President than making this kind of snide remarks.
- His concern was that the website was anonymous and there was the danger that people would queue up to make snide and nasty remarks.
- As for not playing while I was there, well, I could explain but this really isn't the time or place for snide remarks
- When my mum wasn't in the room he would always say snide remarks, taunting me.
Synonyms disparaging, derogatory, deprecating, deprecatory, denigratory, insulting, vituperative, disapproving, contemptuous mocking, taunting, ridiculing, sneering, jeering, scoffing scornful, derisive, sarcastic, caustic, biting, bitchy, shrewish, spiteful, hurtful, nasty, mean British informal sarky rare mordacious 2North American (of a person) devious and underhand. Example sentencesExamples - I mean, I'm not beautiful, so why am I being so snide in my head about others?
- Danny crawled around behind the snide soldier keeping close to the floor and staying hidden as much as he possibly could.
- His on-screen persona is generally snide and mean-spirited, and usually not very funny at all.
- He was snide too, bringing up how much of a hound Mitch was and how that might unhinge any woman's mind.
- In fact, the man had attempted to court her in college, but being the snide women she was, she denied him - until he struck gold in the stock markets.
Synonyms underhand, underhanded, deceitful, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, unethical, unprincipled, immoral, unscrupulous, fraudulent, cheating, dubious, dirty, unfair, treacherous, duplicitous, double-dealing, janus-faced, below the belt, two-timing, two-faced, unsporting, unsportsmanlike 3British informal Counterfeit; inferior.
noun snʌɪdsnaɪd informal An unpleasant or underhand person. he's not a snide, he's better than most
Derivatives adverb With almost malevolent emphasis, newscasters snidely tell us that we're too fat, citing facts or pseudo-facts from this institute or that institute. Example sentencesExamples - Yet still the staff carried on as if we didn't really exist, and at the conclusion of our dining, we were snidely asked if we enjoyed our meal.
- Too late I remembered the Spanish for ‘very small’ and began to play out alternative scenarios in which I snidely put him in his place.
- ‘Of course you wouldn't,’ she replied snidely.
- And I ask that question in dead earnest, not snidely.
noun And, giving up my shield of snideness for a moment, it ends with a wildly entertaining set of out-takes. Example sentencesExamples - If this had been a high-powered business lunch and there was an important meeting to get to, then maybe snideness and rudeness would be called for.
- Why resort to snideness over the basic laying down of facts?
- All snideness aside, art therapy does seem to be beneficial in dementia.
- Sure, politics has been filled with snideness, ridicule and finger pointing probably since the first caveman was elected keeper of the flame, but it's reached the point of combustion.
adjective In hiding, his only human contact are glamour-chasing girl friends, snidey, shady minders and the builders renovating his rambling house. Example sentencesExamples - By laughing at a snidey biog such as this we collude in the destruction of an already terribly injured woman.
- There are loads of celebrities who don't court the publicity and don't then get the snidey coverage.
- Over the years we sat in many a drizzly car park on the dark perimeter of some God forsaken industrial town, solemnly munching sandwiches and making snidey remarks about salesmen.
- You never know, it may just be a nervous laugh, brought on by facing up to five boot-faced, judgemental, snidey so-and-sos like you lot.
Origin Mid 19th century (in sense 3 of the adjective): of unknown origin. Rhymes abide, applied, aside, astride, backslide, beside, bestride, betide, bide, bride, chide, Clyde, cockeyed, coincide, collide, confide, cried, decide, divide, dried, elide, five-a-side, glide, guide, hide, hollow-eyed, I'd, implied, lied, misguide, nationwide, nide, offside, onside, outride, outside, pan-fried, pied, pie-eyed, pitch-side, popeyed, pride, provide, ride, Said, shied, side, slide, sloe-eyed, square-eyed, starry-eyed, statewide, Strathclyde, stride, subdivide, subside, tide, tried, undyed, wall-eyed, wide, worldwide Definition of snide in US English: snideadjectivesnaɪdsnīd 1Derogatory or mocking in an indirect way. snide remarks about my mother Example sentencesExamples - She made snide remarks to the stewardesses and sneered at the little kid across the row.
- I am sick to death of the snide remarks and comments.
- They may be regarded by their fellow pupils as arrogant and over-ambitious, and be subjected, possibly, to snide remarks and even bullying.
- As I walked away, she made a snide remark about me to the others while I was still within earshot.
- His concern was that the website was anonymous and there was the danger that people would queue up to make snide and nasty remarks.
- I go to the counter and give the cheque to a guy who definitely did not have enough sleep last night and was in a mood for nasty snide remarks and evil glares.
- Some marched past him, giving him anything from a passing glance to a narrow eyed stare of contempt and a snide remark.
- As for not playing while I was there, well, I could explain but this really isn't the time or place for snide remarks
- I'd make snide remarks to him, snub him, give him disparaging looks and he usually responded by ignoring my bad behavior and avoiding me.
- There cannot be a greater injustice to our incoming President than making this kind of snide remarks.
- The four of us mocked the commercials and trailers resoundingly, and I made the odd snide remark to Ben that I heard my other companion laughing at.
- So far, all the snide remarks made by the press and by other party politicians have been entirely without substance.
- He felt guilty for pushing her to her limits and sarcastically making his snide remarks.
- One has to put up with snide remarks and comments.
- It disgusts me that one of the best songwriters of his generation is being treated as the butt of jokes and victim of snide remarks.
- Amanda makes snide remarks to Sharon about marrying her brother.
- Sure there will be snide remarks aplenty about those 30th anniversary celebrations.
- Sarah couldn't help but make the snide and sarcastic remark to him to show her hatred.
- Then they sat at the side and spent the rest of the rehearsal making (what appeared from a distance to be) snide remarks.
- When my mum wasn't in the room he would always say snide remarks, taunting me.
Synonyms disparaging, derogatory, deprecating, deprecatory, denigratory, insulting, vituperative, disapproving, contemptuous 2North American (of a person) devious and underhanded. Example sentencesExamples - In fact, the man had attempted to court her in college, but being the snide women she was, she denied him - until he struck gold in the stock markets.
- His on-screen persona is generally snide and mean-spirited, and usually not very funny at all.
- I mean, I'm not beautiful, so why am I being so snide in my head about others?
- Danny crawled around behind the snide soldier keeping close to the floor and staying hidden as much as he possibly could.
- He was snide too, bringing up how much of a hound Mitch was and how that might unhinge any woman's mind.
Synonyms underhand, underhanded, deceitful, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, unethical, unprincipled, immoral, unscrupulous, fraudulent, cheating, dubious, dirty, unfair, treacherous, duplicitous, double-dealing, janus-faced, below the belt, two-timing, two-faced, unsporting, unsportsmanlike 3British informal Counterfeit; inferior.
nounsnaɪdsnīd informal An unpleasant or underhanded person or remark.
Origin Mid 19th century (in snide (sense 3 of the adjective)): of unknown origin. |