snideness

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noun

The state or property of being snide.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounsnideness (usually uncountable, plural snidenesses)

plural snidenesses

  1. uncountableusuallyThe state or property of being snide.
  2. 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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APA

snideness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snideness

MLA

“snideness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snideness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “snideness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snideness.

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