snideness

English

Etymology

snide +‎ -ness

Noun

snideness (usually uncountable, plural snidenesses)

1. The state or property of being snide.
2. A snide remark or utterance.
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     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.