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Snide vs Seamy - What's the difference?

snide | seamy |

As adjectives the difference between snide and seamy

is that snide is disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way while seamy is sordid, squalid or corrupt.

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.

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    Noun

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

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    seamy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Sordid, squalid or corrupt.
  • * 2013 , Sam Jones and Shiv Malik Lou Reed, lead singer of Velvet Undergound, dies aged 71 , The Guardian Online
    • Lou Reed, lead singer of the Velvet Underground, veteran chronicler of life's wilder, seamier and more desperate side and one of the most influential and distinctive songwriters of his generation has died at the age of 71.
  • * 1987 ,
    • She just hadn't been aware, having considered such tales rather seamy while growing up.
  • Having or showing a seam.

    • Derived terms

    * seaminess

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