Word: snideness
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...prince is famously irritable. Stupid comments earn snide retorts. In 1973, when Jordan was debating whether to enter the October War against Israel, an adviser to the King asserted that Jordanian blood must be spilled, to which Hassan replied, "So long as it is not yours, I suppose." Says a senior Jordanian official: "If you disagree with the King, he will never make you feel he is angry. With Hassan, you know he's not happy...
Most people in Europe couldn't care less what Clinton does in his private life. Here he is judged, as he should be, by what he accomplishes as President of the U.S. The snide jokes and questions do not center on Clinton and his sex life but on the circus the American media have made of things. No one can understand why Lewinsky has any relevance to the workings of the American government. STEPHEN HOLODINSKY Bonn...
...Oval Office with my liking and admiration for him fortified. So I was shocked when my son returned from a 22-month bike trip around the world and told me that the ordinary people he met all over the globe reacted to his saying he was an American with snide jokes or questions about his President's sex life. It will be very hard for the President to ask the American people to look beyond mere material comfort to harder challenges when he used the resources of his office, that same Oval Office where I was impressed...
...Paula Jones has got herself a new nose, I hope it turns out to be, as my mother would have put it, cute as a button. Self-improvement is the American way. I was not among those who made snide remarks about Linda Tripp's makeover. Just because your behavior calls to mind Victor McLaglen in The Informer, there is no law that says you have to look like him as well...
...even as her contract expired. Her teary announcement to her staff members that she was moving on left many of them depressed and uneasy about the magazine's future. One editor offered what may be the ultimate tribute to the solemnity of the moment: "I didn't hear anything snide today." Handicapping the odds on who the next editor might be, while gently dropping one's own name into the mix, quickly became Manhattan's favorite parlor game...