gibe

• Walpole had one last gibe: “With her usual maternal tenderness and usual generosity, she has left her son one guinea.” The gibe was unworthy, because Walpole knew quite well the career of that son, who, anyhow, was sufficiently provided for. —  Lady Mary Wortley Montague
• In an interview, he brushed aside the suggestion that his gibe was aimed at his older probable opponents, Atty. —  AroundTheCapitol.com
• On through the flippant gibe, the careless laugh, the carousing and the din of the royal court, it reached and touched the spirit of Lafayette What was the strange tale that came to him from the New World? —  The Spirit of Lafayette
• The gibe was a home-thrust and a cruel one, since Mendelssohn had neither the wit nor the mental acuteness to avoid the pink of the man who was hated by Jew and Christian alike. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
• Who would doubt that he meant my Brother Washburn This gibe is only worth recording as showing the court-house manners of those times. —  Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2

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