Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Derogatory in a malicious, superior way.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Sharp; characterized by low cunning and sharp practice; tricky; also, false; spurious.
- n. An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practice; a sharper: a beat.
- n. A spurious object; a humbug; a fake; something designed to cheat.
Wiktionary
- adj. Sharp.
- adj. Characterised by low cunning and sharp practise.
- adj. Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
- adj. Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.
- n. An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practise; a sharper; a beat.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Slang, archaic Tricky; deceptive; contemptible.
- adj. derogatory in an insinuating manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. expressive of contempt
Etymologies
- From earlier snithe ("sharp, cutting"), from Middle English snith ("sharp"), from Middle English snithen ("to cut"), from Old English snīþan ("to cut, make an incision"), from Proto-Germanic *snīþanan (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *sneyt- (“to cut”). More at snithe. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Or, to be more snide, is that a Hutu or Tutsi village?”
“Your comments are so steeped in snide irony that you’re not really saying anything.”
“This certainly has the MO of Labor party, namely a snide attempt to discredit the subject.”
“Though I've been inactive lately, I've been a member of this forum for enough time to know how to deal with "snide" folks like you.”
“And so, of course, anyone who wants to make a kind of snide point about him being, you know, somebody who's not of us, as it were, this photograph is used.”
“Yes Shaun, you could not get a better description of your comments than 'snide'.”
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
“It's interesting how the usage of "snide" remarks on his site seems to trump, cold, hard factual rebuttals.”
“I dunno Karl, I'm not getting 'snide' from this guy, can you think of some examples?”
Rove: Obama Is The Type Of Guy Who Hangs Out At Country Clubs
“Evidentally, to alot of people, brown liberals with a certain facility with the English language are presumed to be "snide".”
Rove: Obama Is The Type Of Guy Who Hangs Out At Country Clubs
“As to anyone who found "snide" my characterization of those crediting Rush with truth or accuracy as acting as if he was a Papal authority I certainly apologize; it was an unintentional slight.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snide’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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snose words
Words that relate to the nose, particularly those that begin with sn-
sniff, sneer, snub, sneeze, snarl, snort, snide, snout, snob, snooze, snot, snore and 11 more...
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just neat
insolent, redolent, clammy, chunder, berate, vainqueur, neotony, milquetoast, semprini, twaddle, plethora, enteron and 29 more...
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gre words
convoluted, deride, melancholy, antagonize, antagonize, deference, portentous, prodigious, ruminate, ineffable, turgid, mossy and 58 more...
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dharma66's list
words that pique my interest either by meaning, pronunciation, or spelling, and words that otherwise tickle my fancy!!
pique, elusive, serendipity, nefarious, redundant, pseudoscientific, obsequious, flack, quandary, impervious, perchance, translucent and 168 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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kirstenio's Words
lascivious, transcendant, phantasmagoria, salacious, beatitude, solitude, pseudo, pretentious, inanity, sublimation, clobber, obscurity and 186 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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GRE
trope, surreptitious, tenet, insular, munificent, exegesis, limpid, acerbic, litany, cupidity, restive, protract and 260 more...
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soph2's Words
serendipity, audacity, groak, petrichor, lethologica, loganamnosis, agnuopia, dysania, dysphagia, neologism, incredulity, harbinger and 246 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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samoritan's Words
moxie, zarf, crepuscular, serenity, halcyon, powerfuller, instant classic, abecedary, trilobite, doomsters, 'da bome, evanescence and 149 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
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Sudeep's list
New words I learn.
sang-froid, haggard, gazebo, grotesque, cardinal, labyrinth, pejorative, visage, vignette, insouciant, formidable, prescient and 143 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for snide.
chained_bear *gigglesnort* Oct 19, 2008
asativum No. Words can have but one meaning. Oct 18, 2008
dharma66 could this also mean cutting; sarcastic? as in "she answered with yet another snide remark" Oct 18, 2008
bilby British slang - counterfeit. Oct 4, 2008