snide

snide comment

A remark or comment that is particularly mocking, scornful, or derogatory. Savita was ecstatic over her acceptance to law school, but John's snide comment about her ability to succeed really undermined her confidence. Sarah always sits at the back of these team meetings making snide comments about whatever the boss is saying.
See also: comment, snide

snide remark

A remark or comment that is particularly mocking, scornful, or derogatory. Savita was ecstatic over her acceptance to law school, but John's snide remark about her ability to succeed really undermined her confidence. Sarah always sits at the back of these team meetings making snide remarks about whatever the boss is saying.
See also: remark, snide
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

snide remark

n. a caustic, haughty, or insulting remark. You’re really quick with the snide remark. Ever say anything nice to anybody?
See also: remark, snide
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • snide comment
  • snide remark
  • cutting remark
  • comment about
  • comment about (someone or something)
  • comment (up)on (someone or something)
  • lurk
  • lurker
  • no more than I have to
  • next question
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If he wishes to send snide comments about somebody's passing, he should use a private email service, and not the council's.
Tomorrow Make A Scene Spring Break - Liberty''s, Middlesbrough PS7; Vice Squad, Snide Remarks - Legion, Middlesbrough PS7; Rojor - Green Room, Stockton PS8/PS5; The Delmonts - Western Club, M'bro.
A 15- YEAR OLDwas severely injured when one of his classmates allegedly stabbed him over a snide remark the teen had passed about him.
MANY Sunday Mercury readers will have found the snide jibes from Lorne Jackson an offensive attack on the late Stephen Gately.
Pure laughter seems to have been lost in bad language, snide remarks and general "taking the Mickey" in the wrong way.
But Murphy cringed even more at the snide letter to the Press they published on their website, moaning about a prominent doctor who had accused them of being "corporately obese".
I bet I'm not alone in finding the comments on Robert Thomas's sculptures in Cardiff city centre more than a little snide. How readily people will jump on a bandwagon.
Strange though how Mr O'Neill never makes such snide comments about other faiths.
"I SAW your recent snide dig at solar lamps ('Which don't work').
For the last few weeks I've read nothing but snide comments about Lauren Bacall.
This is the kind of book that incites you to write indignant remarks in the margins, like, "Excuse me?" next to the part where Teachout calls Michel Fokine's art-nouveau-flavored 1909 masterpiece Les Sylphides "a slow-moving succession of pretty poses." I don't think Teachout wants to be snide about Fokine--or any of the other figures he evokes dismissively (Diaghilev, Nijinska, Lincoln Kirstein, etc.).