Word: gibe
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Even Brezhnev has seemingly been ridiculed in an article published in the monthly literary magazine Avrora. Though the piece was ostensibly about an elderly writer "who refuses to die," many people read it as a gibe at Brezhnev, who has proved reluctant to step down from office in spite of his infirmities...
Despite the familiar French gibe that Britain is a country with 60 religions and only two sauces, Garmey names several that are unique and pleasant. One of them, made of meat stock, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce and mustard, is called, appropriately...
After five weeks of sifting facts from your gibe-infested articles, I thought I was becoming more and more indifferent to your impudent tone towards non-radicals. The "welcome" to The Salient was so ridiculous that I just had to write and thank you.... it was my first laugh...
...speech, the President aimed a deceptive and somewhat mean-spirited gibe at his opponents, complaining about "a chorus of other voices protesting that we haven't had full economic recovery." Reagan did not acknowledge that he and his aides were slow to concede the inevitable: that a package of $280 billion in tax cuts and $130 billion in spending cuts over three years passed in July was certain to swell budget deficits far beyond what had been anticipated. The bond and stock markets have slipped dramatically since then in anticipation of a sluggish economy, continued high interest rates...
...from early editions of his own paper, laid a trap. He had the text of Part 4 changed slightly; the Star's version repeated the changes. He also altered Part 5 so that the first letters of the article's opening paragraphs spelled out HI MURRAY, a gibe at Star Editor Murray J. Gart. That trick did not work; the Star's version began with the letters YHMMDMYW...