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Recent Examples of snide While Han Solo is aloof, snide, and brooding, Indiana Jones is warm, beleaguered, and funnier. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2025 When paying Fiona for her cleaning services, the snide comments become unbearable. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2025 There’s no shortage of snide jokes, stereotypes, and less-than-flattering representations of age-gap relationships. Jenna Ryu, SELF, 10 Mar. 2025 Now, Shaw Smith and Kelly said, the sense of small-town community has been shattered by residents making snide comments and villainizing one another. Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for snide
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snide
Adjective
  • Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was brilliant (35 points), and the Thunder defense was nasty.
    Chris Branch, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • But Laxe’s cadence of death is nasty and arbitrary and delightful.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • The temperature of online discourse can often provide a false reading of a fanbase’s opinion on a manager or a team.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Big banks are not allowed to cheat their customers with false advertising and misleading promises.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • Twain’s early writing and private letters and diaries contain vile language and sentiments.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
  • The Imperial City Sewers you’re meant to traverse while learning the basics of the game look hideous and vile.
    Jamal Michel, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This fake news is being spread by France’s enemies, both abroad and at home.
    Jenny Goldsberry, The Washington Examiner, 12 May 2025
  • YouTube has further cracked down on fake movie trailer channels.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Airplane tray tables, seatbelt buckles and armrests are known to be among the dirtiest surfaces onboard.
    Isabelle Rodney, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
  • No filmmaker loves the dirty old town that is New York more than Spike Lee.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Low-quality or counterfeit imports have been an issue.
    Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • That the products allegedly had such errors, Levi’s said, shows that PBG willfully perpetuated a counterfeit scheme.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Scheifele’s emotional and inspirational decision to play mere hours after his father’s unexpected death — to play for his dad, to play because of his dad — ended in cruel fashion, with Scheifele helpless in the penalty box.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • At first the program seems to be benign, but Hayakawa’s film steadily reveals how the policy thrives on the cruel capitalist tenet that people are disposable.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • China also makes more large cast and forged products—including landing gear, engine components, brakes, turbine disks, and fan blades—than the next nine countries combined.
    MICHAEL BROWN, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • It is crafted from forged zinc and finished in matte black.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Snide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snide. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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