| 单词 | snide |
| 释义 | snide (once / 9366 pages) adj Snide means insulting or contemptuous in an indirect way. If your friend is wearing too much purple eye shadow and your other friend whispers to you, “What? Was she in a car wreck?” that’s a snide comment. Snide remarks are the kinds of things people say with a sneer on their face. When you leave a movie theater and your friend says, “I can’t believe someone was actually paid to write that screenplay,” he’s being snide. Instead of saying, “That movie was terrible,” he's expressing his disdain in a more underhanded and indirect way. WORD FAMILYsnide: snidely, snider+/snidely: snidelys USAGE EXAMPLESPolice said Saturday that 37-year-old Steven Snider was found fatally wounded after officers responding to another call heard a gunshot. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Snider, president of iSolon.org, regularly writes about issues of democratic reform. Washington Post(Nov 11, 2016) The kind that leaves you open to all the snide remarks. BBC(Dec 06, 2016) adj expressive of contempt makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one Syn sneering, supercilious uncomplimentary tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage |
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