What is "snide"

Usage examples of "snide".

Byron stalked out, galled by this frustrating finale to the long trek from Australia: a bureaucratic stone wall, mildewy with snide anti-Semitism, in a Marseilles consulate.

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He was precociously intellectual, already a master of the snide remark, and his tongue helped get him clobbered every day for ten years.

Audrey for her stoicism in the face of disaster and her finely tuned ballet technique, some of the cattier members of the class must have made snide remarks about her painfully bony look.

He had sold his share of snide pearls, done deals and profited from pearl finds and the shell take.

Stolen pearls, or snides, were filched by divers and crews and sold to known snide buyers or anyone prepared to resell them at a profit.

Snide infighting, phrasemaking, and pantheon building are the symptoms of their critical affliction.

Any minute now, Tell would get off the phone and make some snide remark about Rags clipping coupons and she would snap back that her kitchen was not an extension of his office.

Taylor and Delcarte seized the spirit of my mood but Snider, I think, was a trifle sceptical.

Each of us uncovered a great number of these bricks, until we commenced to weary of the monotony of it, when Snider suddenly gave an exclamation of excitement, and, as I turned to look, he held up a human skull for my inspection.

With the point of his cutlass Snider scraped the dirt and verdigris from the face of the larger ornament.

But scarce had we built our fire and prepared the meat for cooking than Snider, whose eyes had been constantly roving about the landscape from the moment that we left the launch, touched me on the arm and pointed to a clump of bushes which grew a couple of hundred yards away.

I cannot say truthfully that Snider evinced much enthusiasm at my rescue.

The prisoner that Delcarte and Snider had taken was a powerful young fellow from the elephant country.

With the possible exception of Snider, the little party appeared in the best of spirits, laughing and joking, or interestedly discussing the possibilities which the future held for us: what we should find upon the continent, and whether the inhabitants would be civilized or barbarian peoples.