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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
  • Later, it's revealed that Phelps didn't die at all, and his fake death was a setup to frame Ethan.
    EW.com, EW.com, 24 May 2025
  • Bad actors had cloned his voice to make fake 911 calls about emergencies at rival locations.
    Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • No filmmaker loves the dirty old town that is New York more than Spike Lee.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 May 2025
  • Here are just a few of the ways seasoned travelers use a pillowcase on the go: Laundry bag: Keep sweaty clothes or dirty socks separate from the rest of your stuff—no need for plastic grocery bags or hotel laundry sacks.
    Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Parents, experts and lawmakers have urged tech giants to do more to prevent the sale of counterfeit or illicit drugs to young people through their platforms, after multiple teens have died of overdoses from pills bought online.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
  • According to a 2023 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of overdose deaths involving counterfeit pills more than doubled between mid-2019 and late 2021, with states in the Western US being even more acutely impacted.
    Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 17 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 27 May. 2025.

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