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Snide vs Deplorable - What's the difference?

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Snide is a related term of deplorable.


As adjectives the difference between snide and deplorable

is that snide is disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way while deplorable is lamentable, regrettable.

As a noun snide

is an underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practise; a sharper; a beat.

snide

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
    • Don't make snide remarks to me.
  • Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.
    • He was a snide lawyer.
    I received a shipment of snide goods.

    References

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practise; a sharper; a beat.

    • Anagrams

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    deplorable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad.
  • (senseid)To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion.
  • :
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  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable , fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

    • Synonyms

    * pathetic