Meanings
plural snidenesses
- uncountableusuallyThe state or property of being snide.
- uncountableusuallyA snide remark or utterance.
She suspected that during the summer her father had mentioned Brian’s windfall to Billy and that father and son had then traded snidenesses and bitternesses about the W—— Corporation and bourgeois Robin and leisure-class Brian.
2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
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snideness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snideness
“snideness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snideness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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