cutting remark
Example Sentences
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He was impatient with what he saw as his eldest son’s softness and extravagance, sometimes reducing the young man to tears with a cutting remark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2021
Certain mood-inciting triggers of Martin — a cutting remark from a family member, an “aggressive email,” a torturous night of insomnia — I instantly recognized as my own.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2020
When he asks for the letters back, Fleming tries to come up with a cutting remark but can’t, and hands them over without comment.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 30, 2014
All of us play unhappy host to a demon or two roosting in our brains, urging us on to bad behavior now and then: a cutting remark, a catty tweet.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2014
Johnny, in angry mouthfuls, told him what he thought about Dove and the charcoal, and threw in a cutting remark about Dusty.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
