Snide vs Nefarious - What's the difference?
snide | nefarious | Related terms |
Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.
Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
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* 1921 , , The Indiscretions of Archie , ch. 26:
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Snide is a related term of nefarious.
As adjectives the difference between snide and nefarious
is that snide is disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way while nefarious is sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.As a noun snide
is an underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practise; a sharper; a beat.snide
English
Adjective
(er)- Don't make snide remarks to me.
- He was a snide lawyer.
- I received a shipment of snide goods.
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Anagrams
* * *nefarious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "If the vessel be no fair-trading slaver, nor a common cruiser of his Majesty, it is as tangible as the best man's reasoning, that she may be neither more nor less than the ship of that nefarious pirate the Red Rover."
- Mommsen . . . declares that Catiline in particular was "one of the most nefarious' men in that ' nefarious age. His villanies belong to the criminal records, not to history."
- The fact that the room was still in darkness made it obvious that something nefarious was afoot. Plainly there was dirty work in preparation at the cross-roads.
Fact Checker Finds Falsehoods in Remarks," New York Times (retrieved 12 May 2014):
- “I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington.”