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Snide   Listen
adjective
Snide  adj.  
1.
Tricky; deceptive; contemptible; as, a snide lawyer; snide goods. (Slang, archaic)
2.
Derogatory in an insinuating manner; as, a snide remark.





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"Snide" Quotes from Famous Books



... attack upon Christian revelation in the Scheme. In the two years which separated this work from the earlier Grounds and Reasons, there occurred no change in the author's argument. What does occur, however, is a perceptive if snide elaboration upon the mask. This is in many ways the same persona who barely suppressed his guffaws in the earlier work. Now he is given an added dimension; he is made more decisively rational than his predecessor and therefore ...
— A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) • Anthony Collins
... him, and he gave Dora Stein the toss. Now he wants her out of his shine, and he dumped some jay stuff he bought in a bankrupt sale on her to get rid of. The head buyer give him beans for bein' fooled over a snide lot of trash like that, so what he does is to visit it on us. He hoped Dora'd get mad and clear out so he wouldn't see her eyes on him every time he walked past to give Miss Westlake, his new guyl, the glad eye. But I guess now Miss Stein's made such ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... run against some pretty snide specimens," remarked the photographer, lifting one of the ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic
... and indeed I forestalled the objection in the preface of the book.... As to 'Arry's origin, and the way in which I studied him, I have mingled much with working men, shop-lads, and would-be smart and 'snide' clerks—who plume themselves on their mastery of slang and their general 'cuteness' and 'leariness.' I have watched, listened, and studied for years 'from the life,' and I fancy I've a good memory ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann
... solemn. "I think it would be bad to try to cover it up," she decided. "And I'm glad you didn't let Fred do that to you. Some newscast would be sure to get hold of the story and there'd be snide accusations. All this talk recently about the heredity of psi powers is bad, too. That's what she's trying to cash in on. And if the public thought that the man in charge of catching and pulling the fangs of all the snakes was a hereditary telepath, they'd be ...
— Tinker's Dam • Joseph Tinker
... materials trucks. And there were guards there, and they checked each driver very carefully before they admitted his truck. But somehow it wasn't irritating. It wasn't scornful suspicion. There'd be snide and snappy characters in the Security force, of course, swaggering and throwing their weight about. But even they were guarding something that men—some men—were willing to throw ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster


Words linked to "Snide" :   supercilious, uncomplimentary


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