How to Use snide in a Sentence

snide

adjective
  • The crowd promptly booed him, and the play-by-play guy offered up his own snide dig.
    — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 19 July 2017
  • But the snide comments and questions were the least of what the girls endured.
    — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • People were being snide about Steven.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
  • Jagged‘s script is clever but not snide, quirky but not unrelatable.
    — Melissa Rose Bernardo, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Or the snide devil on her shoulder that looks exactly like her.
    — Linda Robertson, miamiherald, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Dunning’s deadpan style ensures none of the humor keels over to the snide.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Dawkins the culture warrior could be snide, off-the-cuff, and downright toxic.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Every time somebody made a point, someone else would make a snide little comment back.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In that same scene, her dad makes a snide remark about affirmative action.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 June 2024
  • While some people will feel best letting snide remarks slide, others will feel compelled to push back.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • But where there’s a disconnect–and that’s where these snide comments originate.
    — Paul Sullivan, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Even if high fashion isn't your thing, watching the snark and snide fly in this office is sure to tickle your funny bone.
    — Melissa Sherrard, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But this is the kind of last-ditch attempt to pull at her heartstrings, but Yasmin can’t help but be snide and bitchy.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The unseen voyeur texts snide commentary on the woman’s routine.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The other flashes a look of opprobrium or makes a snide comment.
    — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The gaggle of neighborhood mean girls who make snide comments about Georgie is a highlight.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • If talking about politics or religion has led to snide remarks, steer clear of that subject.
    — Kirsten Weir, Scientific American, 1 May 2011
  • 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
  • This new MoMA is inoffensive, which sounds snide, but is not meant to.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Your words, if not chosen carefully, could have a strange impact on others, setting off a series of snide remarks.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • The Moon is at odds with three planets, which can trigger arguments, snide remarks and even cruel retorts.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Ochoa’s snide speech about his privileged private school becomes a wrenching aria of desolation and need.
    — Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Oh, and Olivia Newton John, she of the snide reference above… that’s her on backing vocals.
    — Henry Everingham, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2024
  • My apathetic-bystander self and my Mommy self can make snide jokes in the corner together.
    — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 30 May 2018
  • Elevating the snide remarks made by some black people to the same level as racist systems and actions is a curious choice.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2019
  • 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

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