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- adverb In a
snide manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with a sneer; in an uncomplimentary sneering manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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How hard would it have been to ask? my internal voice prodded snidely.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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Washington snidely told Commissary Walker that the redcoats flatter themselves with getting a better road than Genl.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Some evening TV commentators could not resist the temptation to refer snidely to comments made by then-President George W. Bush, including running TV clips of Bush apparently diminishing the importance of killing bin Laden, saying his death should not be the measurement of America's success or failure in its war against terror.
Lanny Davis: The Death of OBL: The Perfect Purple Moment... Almost Lanny Davis 2011
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How hard would it have been to ask? my internal voice prodded snidely.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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Washington snidely told Commissary Walker that the redcoats flatter themselves with getting a better road than Genl.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Barton was snidely saying, “look, the oil and gas got there because the climate and CO2 undergoes natural cycles — we humans have nothing to do with it.”
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From the very beginning, Pelosi snidely stated they did not need Repbulicans.
McCain faults how Dems have approached health care reform 2009
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Conventional theory suggests that the new generation of college graduates will go to the largest, densest places, eschewing, as The Wall Street Journal put it snidely, their parent's McMansions for small abodes in the inner city.
The U.S.' Biggest Brain Magnets Joel Kotkin 2011
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Barton was snidely saying, “look, the oil and gas got there because the climate and CO2 undergoes natural cycles — we humans have nothing to do with it.”
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When the prisoners told him “that they had been sent with a summons to order me to depart,” he snidely claimed that it was a “plausible pretence to discover our camp, and to obtain the knowledge of our forces and our situation!”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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