How to Use snide in a Sentence

snide

adjective
  • But the snide comments and questions were the least of what the girls endured.
    Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • Caesar was wary of the Ides of March; Trump is wary of snide remarks.
    Brenna Williams, CNN, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The crowd promptly booed him, and the play-by-play guy offered up his own snide dig.
    Esquire Editors, Esquire, 19 July 2017
  • Funny, but the snide emails and snarky tweets from the Ole Miss and Mississippi State fans have stopped.
    Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Note: Anybody who watches Food Network knows that that last line was a snide joke.
    Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 27 June 2017
  • And then there’s the occasional snide remark from passers-by who see them as a symbol of the city’s new tech elite.
    Elliot Njus | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The younger Riddell sat in the back of the room during the meeting, video recording the proceeding and making snide comments.
    Olivia Dimmer, OregonLive.com, 8 July 2017
  • Or the snide devil on her shoulder that looks exactly like her.
    Linda Robertson, miamiherald, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Even if high fashion isn't your thing, watching the snark and snide fly in this office is sure to tickle your funny bone.
    EW.com, 10 May 2024
  • Jagged‘s script is clever but not snide, quirky but not unrelatable.
    Melissa Rose Bernardo, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The gaggle of neighborhood mean girls who make snide comments about Georgie is a highlight.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • This new MoMA is inoffensive, which sounds snide, but is not meant to.
    Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Every school would be snide about her remark, except for Yale, which held true to the promise of what its program was all about.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Even in court, the judge can’t resist a snide comment about her U.K. education.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Drake made a few snide remarks, and then Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Lamar came back and just pulverized him.
    Susan Caskie, theweek, 21 May 2024
  • In the middle of robbing the bank, one robber might make a passing, snide remark about the style choices of another.
    Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 30 May 2018
  • The unseen voyeur texts snide commentary on the woman’s routine.
    Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Arthur, a snide and boozy future duke, could not be a worse match for Gwendoline, the sarcastic wallflower best known as the Princess of England.
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This Blog is here for a purpose—to fight pedophilia and znus [lechery], not for snide remarks, filthy comments or threats.
    Linda Stasi, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Every time somebody made a point, someone else would make a snide little comment back.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The other flashes a look of opprobrium or makes a snide comment.
    Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Obviously, this means no eye rolling and no snide comments.
    NBC News, 4 Feb. 2020
  • This suddenness meant that for a while, Space Force was long on rhetoric but short on specifics and subject to snide remarks from people on the Internet.
    Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2020
  • But where there’s a disconnect–and that’s where these snide comments originate.
    Paul Sullivan, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • On the stuffy side of the deck, Zane is aptly snide as Rose's cowardly fiance, while Frances Fisher is perfect as a social snob, both shrill and frightened.
    Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Shields has a field day playing Hook, egging on the traditional booing of the character with snide remarks to the audience.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Throughout the episode, Christina and Tarek took turns sneaking in snide remarks about each other's appearances.
    Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 1 June 2018
  • However, Salah was instead injured as the result of a cynical, snide and sneaky 'challenge' from Ramos.
    SI.com, 29 May 2018
  • She was met with snide remarks and questions about her energy level when trying to reenter the workforce.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • Several pet owners told me that a bit more grace would be nice, too: fewer eye rolls or snide comments, fewer jokes about dying alone.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2024

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