snidely


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snide

 (snīd)
adj. snid·er, snid·est
1. Mocking or derogatory in a malicious or ironic way: snide comments.
2. Making or given to making snide remarks: a snide roommate.

[Origin unknown.]

snide′ly adv.
snide′ness n.
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Adv.1.snidely - with a sneer; in an uncomplimentary sneering manner; "`I don't believe in these customs,' he said sneeringly"
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She's also a lesbian who enjoys sex (although a past love broke her heart), a binge drinker who might not have crossed the line to alcoholism yet (although she'll drink with just about anyone to avoid drinking alone), a tortured genius (in her own mind), snidely nasty to anyone she takes a dislike to (a woman willing to have sex with her is not immune to her ill graces), and harassed by her parents to get a steady job instead of trying to write full-time (and scraping by with the pittance she makes from freelance editing work).
The broadsides escalated in recent months, with Trump telling a television interviewer that Sessions "had never had control" of the Justice Department and snidely accusing him on Twitter of not protecting Republican interests by allowing two GOP congressmen to be indicted before the election.
'I don't need you to vote for me; I just need you to protect me,' Julia snidely tells her bodyguard.
Connor's Little Lizzie column, and in particular ol' Snidely Snotworth III, slapped me upside the head.
According to the video, Taiwan was not seen as a core area of the nation, until the Japanese seized it in 1895, and the narrator snidely quips, "We always want what we can't have, don't we?"
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We register only a passive indifference to their fates; they're "like almost every other woman living in this late patriarchy," as one of the girlfriends snidely notes.
Within a gay context it can be used very snidely: to contain trans people and to denigrate other men.
I think I've told this story before: Once, I tried to give my mother some advice about what wine to serve with dinner, and I guess she took it the wrong way because she snidely replied: "Gee, Rachel, we can't all be the Jewish Jackie Kennedy?" (It's Yom Kippur time, so don't worry, we've long forgiven each other.)