snide

Speech parts

1. snide - Noun

2. snide - Adjective

3. snide - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Tricky; deceptive; contemptible; as, a snide lawyer; snide goods.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sneering supercilious pert base crooked scornful shifty mean false cutting cruel vicious malicious fraudulent spurious
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Antonyms

clement beneficent good real direct actual
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Phrases with the word

make snide remarks

Anagrams

Denis Dines sdein Sinde

Examples

If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all concerned if you bestowed the fruits of your prodigious wit on someone with the spare time to give them the consideration they doubtless deserve. Iain Banks

A quotation's only a short neat way of sayin' somethin' everybody knows, like "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide." Margery Allingham

You really don't want to take that tone with me. (Varyk) Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated. How about I just settle on extreme sarcasm and we call it even? (Dev) Sherrilyn Kenyon

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate! Joanna Trollope

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice. Jenny Eclair

It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better. Lauren Willig

Close letter words and terms

snicklefritz snickleway Snickometer snide pitcher snidely snideness