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as in nasty
not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decency
a snide trick to get the couple to gamble on a bet they had no real chance of winning
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as in false
being such in appearance only and made or manufactured with the intention of committing fraud
some small-time crook who was selling snide gems to gullible tourists
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Recent Examples of snide
Dawkins the culture warrior could be snide, off-the-cuff, and downright toxic.
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
Her elder sister, Alexia (Ella Rumpf), encourages Justine to lean into the tense environment, but snide swipes between the sisters betray an unspoken distrust.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
Pullman, an eventual love interest, and Méndez, that snide competitor, do especially good work when depicting the inner lives of the men in Hope’s noxious orbit.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024
The Blades sisters heard the snide comments some of the other wrestlers and their parents made about them.
—Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2024
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
Her elder sister, Alexia (Ella Rumpf), encourages Justine to lean into the tense environment, but snide swipes between the sisters betray an unspoken distrust.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
Pullman, an eventual love interest, and Méndez, that snide competitor, do especially good work when depicting the inner lives of the men in Hope’s noxious orbit.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024
The Blades sisters heard the snide comments some of the other wrestlers and their parents made about them.
—Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snide
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At its simplest, while tracking cookies are a nasty underpin to the internet, they can be seen and controlled, whether by those website popups or electing to use some form of private browsing that blocks such cookies altogether.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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But the only bacteria raw or pasteurized milk contain are the nasty kind—salmonella, campylobacter and the like, according to the FDA.Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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Nashville) Letter:Trump's false claims on pet-eating scared me into hiding my cat.David Plazas, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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Pennsylvania prosecutors charged Mangione with charges related to forgery, firearms being carried without a license, tampering with records or identification, possessing instruments of crime and false identification to law enforcement authorities.Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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The dancing on the death of somebody was pretty vile.Miranda Kennedy, Vox, 10 Dec. 2024
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The hour sits with him as his anxiety builds, causing some to sympathize with him despite his typical vile behavior.EW Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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In 2017, then State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman indicted Newman on 58 counts, following a two-year investigation nicknamed Operation Vandelay Industries, a nod to George Costanza’s fake latex company on Seinfeld.Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 25 Dec. 2024
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Many of the fake trailers seem to edit together clips from several different videos, including Culkin's ad for Google Assistant, which was released in 2018. Reach the reporter at dina.kaur@arizonarepublic.com.Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2024
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From savory breads and rolls for sandwiches and soup-sopping to decadent sweet loaves and rolls for breakfast or dessert, the easy recipes give you a break while your mixer does the dirty work.Josh Miller, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2024
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The Romans liked to give the appearance of civilized rule by getting local thugs to do their dirty work.N.T. Wright, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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Nashville police arrested an 18-year-old shortly after his arrival on a Greyhound bus when he was discovered to have thousands of counterfeit oxycodone pills in his possession, the department said.Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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In 2023, the company spent over $1.2 billion on counterfeit, fraud and abuse prevention.Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 4 Nov. 2024
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Some Rochester residents disagree and find their city’s methods excessively cruel to the birds.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
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The gods prove cruel but not omnipotent, and the modern settings exert their own redemptive pull; the final effect is that of a magic trick, in which the characters manage, in each film’s miraculous closing moments, to slip the bonds of tragedy.Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
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On Tuesday, a Manhattan grand jury indicted Mangione for murder as an act of terrorism, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a forged instrument.Emma Bowman, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
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Mangione has also been charged in New York with three counts of criminal possession of a weapon, and a count of criminal possession of a forged instrument.Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Snide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snide. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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