How to Use snide in a Sentence

snide

adjective
Definition of snidenext
Synonyms for snidenext
  • Caesar was wary of the Ides of March; Trump is wary of snide remarks.
    — Brenna Williams, CNN, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The crowd promptly booed him, and the play-by-play guy offered up his own snide dig.
    — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 19 July 2017
  • Funny, but the snide emails and snarky tweets from the Ole Miss and Mississippi State fans have stopped.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Note: Anybody who watches Food Network knows that that last line was a snide joke.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 27 June 2017
  • And then there’s the occasional snide remark from passers-by who see them as a symbol of the city’s new tech elite.
    — Elliot Njus | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The younger Riddell sat in the back of the room during the meeting, video recording the proceeding and making snide comments.
    — Olivia Dimmer, OregonLive.com, 8 July 2017
  • Or the snide devil on her shoulder that looks exactly like her.
    — Linda Robertson, miamiherald, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Jagged‘s script is clever but not snide, quirky but not unrelatable.
    — Melissa Rose Bernardo, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The gaggle of neighborhood mean girls who make snide comments about Georgie is a highlight.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • This new MoMA is inoffensive, which sounds snide, but is not meant to.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Every school would be snide about her remark, except for Yale, which held true to the promise of what its program was all about.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Even in court, the judge can’t resist a snide comment about her U.K. education.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2023
  • In the middle of robbing the bank, one robber might make a passing, snide remark about the style choices of another.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 30 May 2018
  • The unseen voyeur texts snide commentary on the woman’s routine.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Arthur, a snide and boozy future duke, could not be a worse match for Gwendoline, the sarcastic wallflower best known as the Princess of England.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This Blog is here for a purpose—to fight pedophilia and znus [lechery], not for snide remarks, filthy comments or threats.
    — Linda Stasi, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Every time somebody made a point, someone else would make a snide little comment back.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The other flashes a look of opprobrium or makes a snide comment.
    — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Obviously, this means no eye rolling and no snide comments.
    — NBC News, 4 Feb. 2020
  • This suddenness meant that for a while, Space Force was long on rhetoric but short on specifics and subject to snide remarks from people on the Internet.
    — Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2020
  • But where there’s a disconnect–and that’s where these snide comments originate.
    — Paul Sullivan, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • On the stuffy side of the deck, Zane is aptly snide as Rose's cowardly fiance, while Frances Fisher is perfect as a social snob, both shrill and frightened.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Shields has a field day playing Hook, egging on the traditional booing of the character with snide remarks to the audience.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Throughout the episode, Christina and Tarek took turns sneaking in snide remarks about each other's appearances.
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 1 June 2018
  • However, Salah was instead injured as the result of a cynical, snide and sneaky 'challenge' from Ramos.
    — SI.com, 29 May 2018
  • She was met with snide remarks and questions about her energy level when trying to reenter the workforce.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • Several pet owners told me that a bit more grace would be nice, too: fewer eye rolls or snide comments, fewer jokes about dying alone.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2024
  • If talking about politics or religion has led to snide remarks, steer clear of that subject.
    — Kirsten Weir, Scientific American, 1 May 2011
  • Your words, if not chosen carefully, could have a strange impact on others, setting off a series of snide remarks.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Elevating the snide remarks made by some black people to the same level as racist systems and actions is a curious choice.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2019

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