a cheap shot
a criticism or attack on someone that is unfair:
I think her making fun of his wife was a cheap shot.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
- acerbic
- acidly
- backbite
- backbiting
- backhanded
- barbaric
- bilious
- cruelty
- cutthroat
- fiendish
- hard-hearted
- have a heart of stone idiom
- malign
- pitiless
- remorseless
- ruthless
- sadism
- sadist
- unsympathetic
- waspish
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Critical & uncomplimentary