snide
[snahyd]
- derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner: snide remarks about his boss.
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Origin of snide
First recorded in 1860–65; origin uncertain
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Related Words
disparaging, sneering, unkind, sarcastic, base, cynical, hurtful, malicious, mean, scornful, spiteful, insinuatingExamples from the Web for snide
Contemporary Examples
In the following issue, The Group was the subject of a snide, imperious review by Norman Mailer.
She welcomed Jews into her cabinet, prompting the snide joke that she favored "Old Estonians over Old Etonians."
For all the snide comments from the right, the word is getting passed on.
For his part, Newt Gingrich has clearly been honing his persona as condescending, arch, snide Big Thinker.
But Michael Medved says this approach amounts to snide religion-bashing.
Historical Examples
Some newscast would be sure to get hold of the story and there'd be snide accusations.
Tinker's DamJoseph Tinker
He resented the snide bit of conditioning, but respected it at the same time.
DeathworldHarry Harrison
Most on us is wasters; the game of the snide un's to be a Prize Plant.
The "snide" was led back to the station house and put in a cell.
The Twin VentriloquistsOld Sleuth
I guess I ain't told you much you don't know about your snide business.
The ClarionSamuel Hopkins Adams
snide1
- Also: snidey (ˈsnaɪdɪ) (of a remark, etc) maliciously derogatory; supercilious
- counterfeit; sham
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- slang sham jewellery
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Word Origin
C19: of unknown origin
snide2
- Northern English dialect to fill or load
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Word Origin and History for snide
adj.
1859, thieves' slang, "counterfeit, sham, bad, spurious," of unknown origin. Of persons, "cunning, sharp," from 1883. Sense of "sneering" is first attested 1933, perhaps via sense of "hypocrisy, malicious gossip" (1902). Related: Sneeringly.
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