Snide

Definition: Snide

Snide

Adjective

1. Expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "snide" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

Synonyms: Snide

Deception

Untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem.

Crosswords: Snide

Expressions using "snide": make snide remarks ♦ snide remark. Additional references.

Albanian

mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, fraudulent, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, Jack-in-the-box, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, pettifogging, phoney, quack, racketeer, rascal, rascally, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, swindler, trickster, twister, two-tongued), fals (affected, bogus, dummy, false, off-key, out of whole cloth, painted, plastic, spurious, untrue). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كاذب (bogus, deceptive, delusive, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, flash, lying, phony, pseudo, sham, simulate, spurious, unreal, untrue, untruthful), ‏وضيع (contemptible, cowardly, grubby, humble, inferior, low, low-grade, lowly, mean, menial, scabby, scaly, scruffy, scurvy, slavish, slight, vile), ‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏غير ودي (distant, hostile, inimical, unfriendly), ‏غادر (blow, depart, disloyal, false, feline, get carried away, go, hop, insidious, jump, leave, pop off, quit, ratty, retire, scram, skip, snaky, sneak, start, traitorous, treacherous), ‏ساخر (biting, bitter, cutting, cynic, cynical, derisive, derisory, epigram, giber, ironic, ironical, irradiant, lampooner, lampoonist, laughable, persiflage, quizzical, sarcastic, sardonic, saturnine, sneerer, tongue in cheek, wry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фалшиви монети, фалшиви бижута, фалшив (bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, false, fictitious, hollow, imitative, insincere, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, queer, sharp, spurious, supposititious, tinsel), злонамерен (evil-minded, malicious, mischievous, wicked), подъл (base, blackguardly, caitiff, creeping, dastardly, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dirt, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, jesuitic, jesuitical, low, low down, low-minded, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, recreant, reptile, scurvy, shabby, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, vile, villainous), подигравателен (derisive, jesting, mocking, sneering, snippy, teasing). (various references)

Czech

sarkastický (biting, cutting, mordant, sarcastic), uštìpaèný (acrimonious, derisive, mocking, sarcastic, scathing, sneering), jízlivý (acerbic, blistering, catty, scathing, sneering, spiteful, unkind, waspish, wry). (various references)

Farsi 

نیشدار(حرف), کنایه امیز (Sardonic, Wry), حقه باز (Phony, Slicker, Trickster), زرنگ (Adroit, Agile, Apt, Bright, Clever, Dapper, Jaunty, Nimble, Pawky, Shifty, Shrewd, Slicker, Smart, Spry). (various references)

French

servile, sarcastique, narquois, mesquin, insidieux (snaky, sneaky), inamical. (various references)

German

abfällig (adverse, derisive, derogatory, disparaging, slighting, slightly). (various references)

Greek 

κοροϊδευτικόσ, ρωθωνίζω (sniffle, snort, snuffle), μυκτηριστικόσ, υπαινικτικόσ (allusive, suggestive), υποτιμητικόσ (derogatory, pejorative), υποτιμητικός (derogatory), χλευαστικός (scornful), ειρωνικόσ (derisive, ironic, ironical, quipish, quippy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזויף (bastard, bogus, counterfeit, dummy, fake, false, forged, made up, meretricious, mock, postiche, specious, spurious). (various references)

Hungarian

hamis (adulterous, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, deceitful, disingenuous, dud, dummy, factitious, false, frame-up, hollow, insincere, loaded, make-believe, mendacious, meretricious, mock, mockery, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, pseud, pseudo, sham, simulated, spurious, supposititious, surreptitious, two faced, untrue, untruthful), csaló (abuser, bilk, blackleg, bobber, cheat, colubrine, crook, deceitful, double-dealer, fake, faker, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, gouge, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, jockey, juggler, leg, masquerader, picaroon, piker, rogue, roguish, rook, rooky, shark, sharper, skinner, swindler, trickster). (various references)

Italian

maligno (bad tempered, black-hearted, gloating, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, spiteful, venomous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"て�"�り (insinuation, snide remark). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あて�"すり (insinuation, snide remark). (various references)

Pig Latin

idesnay.(various references)

Portuguese

falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), falsificado (adulterate, base, cogged, counterfeit, faked, false, spurious), de imitação (mock, pinchbeck, simulated). (various references)

Russian 

язвительный (acrimonious, biting, catty, epigrammatic, incisive, punchy, stinging, waspish), фальшивый (faked, false, feigned, off-key, phoney, pinchbeck, pseudo, supposititious), нечестный (cammed, crooked, dirty, dishemest, dishonest, dodgy, foul, mean, rascally, unfair). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sarkastičan (sarcastic, taunting), podrugljiv (derisive, derisory, jeering, mocking, quizzical, ridicule, sneering, taunting). (various references)

Spanish

sarcástico (cutting, sarcastic), despreciativo (contemptuous, scornful). (various references)

Swedish

spydig (jeering, sarcastic). (various references)

Turkish

sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), taklit (affectation, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, echo, fake, false, gold brick, hit off, imitated, imitation, imitative, impression, mimesis, mimic, mimicry, mock, mockery, pinchbeck, repetition, reproduction, sham, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, take off), küçümseyen (condescending, cynical, deprecating, deprecatory, disdainful, disparaging, scornful, sneering, snooty, underestimating), art niyetli (evil-disposed, evil-minded, malevolent). (various references)

Ukrainian

фальшива коштовність, шахрайський (fraudulent, pettifogging, picaresque, puckish, rascally), нечесний (bad, bum, cammed, crooked, dishonest, sharking, shifty, sinister, unfair, untrue), жалюгідний (abject, beggarly, caitiff, contemptible, deplorable, forlorn, impoverished, lamentable, mean, miserable, parsimonious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, queachy, sorry, tatty, woeful, woesome, wretched), підроблений (adulterate, adulterated, bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, falsified, imitative, mock, sham, simulated, spurious, staged, supposititious), паскудна людина. (various references)

Vietnamese 

giả mạo láu cá; ác ý. (various references)

ribuffare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "snide": snidely, snideness, snidenesses, snider, snidest. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Snide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enide, isinde, nidda, onide, saide, seide, senade, Shide, shnide, Sidda, Sidef, Sidek, sidew, sidhe, sido, sidue, sined, sinid, skide, snaed, snaid, sneide, snibe, snides, snidle, snie, snieg, snire, snive, snivet, snixed, snude, snudy, snute, snyde, sonid, spide, stide, suide, swide. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dines, nides.

-1 letter: deni, dens, dies, dine, dins, ends, ides, nide, send, side, sine, sned.

-2 letters: den, die, din, dis, eds, end, ens, ids, ins, sei, sen, sin.

-3 letters: de, ed, en, es, id, in, is, ne, si.

+1 letter: deigns, denies, denims, design, dienes, diners, dinges, dizens, donsie, dwines, fiends, indies, indues, inside, noised, nudies, onside, rinsed, sained, seined, shined, signed, singed, sinned, snider, sniped, spined, teinds, undies, widens.

+2 letters: aniseed, bandies, basined, beduins, behinds, binders, bindles, candies, cinders, codeins, dandies, defines, denials, deniers, densify, density, dentils, dentins, dentist, designs, destain, destine, destiny, detains, deveins, dezincs, dickens, dimness, dindles, dineros, dingers, dingeys, dingies, dingles, dingoes, dinkeys, dinkies, dinners, dipnets, discern, dispend, dissent, distend, distent, divines, doeskin, domines, dunites, dyeings, dyneins, edgings, emodins, endings, endites, endives, endrins, endwise, engilds, engirds, enisled, ensiled, enskied, enwinds, exscind, fadeins, finders, friends, hinders, hoidens, impends, inbreds, incased, incised, incudes, incused, indenes, indents, indexes, indices, indites, indoles, indorse, induces, infused, insider, insides, instead, insured, intends, invades, iodines, ionised, kidneys, kindest, kindles, lindens, lindies, linseed, maidens, medians, medinas, middens, mildens, minders, mindset, misdone, missend, mistend, naiades, nerdish, nereids, nidgets, niduses, noddies, ordines, pandies, pinders, randies, rebinds, redfins, redskin, refinds, reminds, rescind, resined, rewinds, rosined, sainted, sandier, sardine, secondi, seeding, sending, shinned, shrined, sideman, sidemen, sinewed, singled, skeined, skinked, skinned, slidden, slinked, smidgen, snailed, snibbed, snicked, snidely, snidest, sniffed, snipped, sordine, spindle, splined, stained, stinted, stipend, sueding, swidden, swindle, swinged, swinked, tinders, tineids, undines, unsized, verdins, winders, windles.