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Snide   Listen
adjective
Snide  adj.  
1.
Tricky; deceptive; contemptible; as, a snide lawyer; snide goods. (Slang, archaic)
2.
Derogatory in an insinuating manner; as, a snide remark.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Snide" Quotes from Famous Books



... waved above the snide Bungalow, and it was now a Queen Anne Chateau dripping with Dew-dads of Scroll Work and congested with Black Walnut. The Goddess took her Mocha in the Feathers, and a Music Teacher came twice each week to bridge the awful chasm between Dorothy and Chopin. Dinner ...
— Ade's Fables • George Ade

... it gave her strength. Thus she was not depressed when on the last day of their week he said: "I think we'd better push on to Cincinnati tomorrow. There's nothing here, and we've got to get placed before our cash gives out. In Cincinnati there are a dozen places to one in this snide town." ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... deceived &c v.; deceiving &c; cunning &c 702; prestigious^, prestigiatory^; deceptive, deceptious^; deceitful, covinous^; delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus [Lat.]. untrue &c 546; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide [Slang], pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... cunning &c 702; prestigious|, prestigiatory|; deceptive, deceptious[obs3]; deceitful, covinous[obs3]; delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus[Lat]. untrue &c 546; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide*, pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



Words linked to "Snide" :   supercilious, sneering, uncomplimentary



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