snide remark
an unpleasant criticism
TRANSLATION
snide remark = eine höhnische Bemerkung --- GOOGLE INDEX snide remark: approximately 55,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
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Growing up in Glasgow in the 60s and 70s, I suffered a few SNIDE REMARKS about the Tallies (Italians).
(BBC News)
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"There were a lot of very SNIDE REMARKS out there."
- tennis professional Gabriela Sabatini
Growing up in Glasgow in the 60s and 70s, I suffered a few SNIDE REMARKS about the Tallies (Italians).
(BBC News)
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"There were a lot of very SNIDE REMARKS out there."
- tennis professional Gabriela Sabatini
Did you
know?
snide
adjective
- (especially of remarks) containing unpleasant criticism that is not clearly stated
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Snide remarks are annoying for those at the receiving end. But they also present an opportunity for those who are fast and witty enough to counter them.
British author Anthony Trollope was sitting beside a woman one evening at a dinner party. After filling his plate with generous portions of every dish, the woman snidely remarked, "You seem to have a very good appetite, Mr. Trollope," after which he replied, "Not at all madam, but I am, thank God, very greedy."
And then there was the famous exchange between Winston Churchill and British politician and socialite Nancy Astor, who openly disliked one another:
"Sir, if I were your wife, I would put poison in your tea!"
Churchill replied, "Madame if I were your husband, I'd drink it."
Etymology: Snide was originally used among thieves in the mid-19th century as slang for "counterfeit, sham." The sense of sarcastic and mean, as in a remark, first appeared around 1933.
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SYNONYMS
disparaging, insinuating, malicious, mean, sarcastic, scornful, sneering, spiteful
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Snide remarks usually indicate a dysfunctional relationship."
adjective
- (especially of remarks) containing unpleasant criticism that is not clearly stated
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Snide remarks are annoying for those at the receiving end. But they also present an opportunity for those who are fast and witty enough to counter them.
British author Anthony Trollope was sitting beside a woman one evening at a dinner party. After filling his plate with generous portions of every dish, the woman snidely remarked, "You seem to have a very good appetite, Mr. Trollope," after which he replied, "Not at all madam, but I am, thank God, very greedy."
And then there was the famous exchange between Winston Churchill and British politician and socialite Nancy Astor, who openly disliked one another:
"Sir, if I were your wife, I would put poison in your tea!"
Churchill replied, "Madame if I were your husband, I'd drink it."
Etymology: Snide was originally used among thieves in the mid-19th century as slang for "counterfeit, sham." The sense of sarcastic and mean, as in a remark, first appeared around 1933.
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SYNONYMS
disparaging, insinuating, malicious, mean, sarcastic, scornful, sneering, spiteful
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Snide remarks usually indicate a dysfunctional relationship."
