Word: snidely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trivial . . . were your reviewer's rather snide remarks [TIME, April 8] about my "sub-historical" stuff (in Intimations of Eve), and my Tarzanish and Alley-Oopian portrayals; but of greater moment is his deft effort to conceal his ignorance and suggest his erudition with such remarks: "Experts may wish to argue . . . whether the principle of the canoe was grasped before the principle of the baby...
Buenos Aires' nationalist, snide Tribuna, long accustomed to reporting Colonel Juan Domingo Perón's triumphs in Argentina, published evidence of the Colonel's expanding popularity abroad. Its correspondent reported...
...conference over, fair-minded correspondents agreed that the Governor had done quite well. He had kept his good humor, had not lost balance. They could not say as much for some of their snide colleagues...
...gallops through some handsome Technicolored Arizona landscapes and fetches up nowhere in particular. Originally, Paramount planned a film about the Calgary Stampede. What emerges is a complicated musical involving a show girl (Dorothy Lamour) whose father owns a dud silver mine, a counterfeiter (Victor Moore) who looks like a snide old deacon, and a young fellow (Dick Powell) who can't decide just how honest is honest enough. Toothy Cass Daley, the pauper's Beatrice Lillie, may tickle groundlings. For others there is a very shrewd little slapfooted dance performed by Cy Landry as an Indian...
...Boston papers had been letting up on Harvard, because you can't make snide remarks about a military training center. That's unpatriotic...