snide comment

collocation in English

meaningsofsnideandcomment

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snide
adjective
uk
/snaɪd/us
/snaɪd/
(especially of remarks) containing unpleasant criticism that is not ...
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comment
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkɒm.ent/us
/ˈkɑː.ment/
something that you say or write that expresses ...
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(Definition ofsnideandcommentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsnide comment

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There was somesnidecommentthat it was a political decision—and it was, of course, because the size of the defence budget is a political decision.
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That to restrain himself from saying that he found it "superficially" attractive, and he made somesnidecommentabout it was the reason for that remark.
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He promptly sheds his antlers, makes asnidecommentto his former guests, and swims across the lake to rejoin his herd.
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Steamed by thesnidecomment, the veteran hops to his feet fuming and demanding to be sold 5 tickets in order to prove his buying power.
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I believe that they will discharge their duties as senior public servants without meriting a lot of the snide comments that are now being made.
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I get a little tired of some of the snide comments about the "inspired amateur".
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He sits here making cheap, snide comments—he should be ashamed of himself.
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He could not resist stepping aside and making one or two snide comments.
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We have heard the usual snide comments about inefficiency and lack of value for money.
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Perhaps if its performance in the past and its potential for the future were more widely understood the snide comments to which it is at times subjected would cease.
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In some of the destructive and rather snide comments which have been made as regards proposals for the future, very little emphasis has been placed upon the child.
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For this they have won a lot of respect from the farming community which should at least offset the snide comments they sometimes receive from newspaper columns and cartoons.
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Instead of that, we get little carping, snide comments because somebody else is not as clever as he is and is not able to earn money.
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I hope that his speech and the whole debate will be widely and accurately reported in the media and not denigrated or distorted by snide comments.
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Snide comments are made about the "shade" of skin, implying that the lighter you were, the higher you were ranked in class.
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They try to be nice to one another, but their thinly veiled snide comments and forced attitude belie their discomfiture.
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Throughout the story his role is largely the provision of wry or sometimes snide comments on the present situation.
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He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone.
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