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snideness

snideness noun: the state or property of being snide.

Noun

snideness (usually uncountable, plural snidenesses)

  1. (usually) The state or property of being snide.
  2. (usually) A 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

Forms of snideness

pluralsnidenesses

Origin of snideness

From snide + -ness.

Questions about snideness

What does snideness mean?
Snideness means the state or property of being snide.
What part of speech is snideness?
Snideness is a noun.
What is the plural of snideness?
The plural of snideness is snidenesses.

Words near snideness in the dictionary

  1. sniddies
  2. snide
  3. snide pitcher
  4. snide pitchers
  5. snidely
  6. snideness
  7. snidenesses
  8. snider
  9. Sniderman
  10. Sniders
  11. snides

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