Word: snidely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic Democratic primary to fill the U.S. Congress seat being vacated by Senate hopeful James M. Shannon, a barroom brawl well-matched enough to be interesting, and chock full of snide advertising, nasty charges and heated countercharges...
Condescension informs much of the literature about Los Angeles, or something darker (The Day of the Locust). It seems to beget in the outsider the tendency to be snide, to say, for example, that if Houston is the buckle on the Sunbelt, L.A. is the melanoma. "Double Dubuque," H.L. Mencken called it. Westbrook Pegler proposed that the city be declared incompetent and placed in the charge of a guardian...
...tension of each confrontation between Gaston and the Renauds' is relieved, but not diffused, in several minor scenes. Eric Ronis, who plays the butler, is single-handedly responsible for some of the most humorous episodes in the play. He is cynical, sarcastic and almost painfully snide. As a whole, Traveller Without Luggage moves smoothly from scene to scene, escaping the tiresome emotional overload which seems inherent to the story-line of the play itself...
...have presented another snide, patronizing reference to the minimal part played by Britain and the other Allies in the Normandy landings. I was beginning to think that the U.S. had grown up and was no longer a braggart. How sad to find that you still need to hog the glory...
Other writers, though, say the hippies have lost out. "I'm really offended by a tone that pervades much of the Let's Go writing--it's the slightly snide, know-it-all rich kid tone," says Schor...