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gibe

noun as in ridicule

verb as in ridicule

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The gibe blew Quayle off the debate stage; then, just a few weeks later, Republicans won the White House in a landslide.

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“Kamala Harris” — a former district attorney and California’s attorney general— “prosecuted murderers and drug traffickers. Donald Trump fell asleep at his own trial,” Clinton gibed.

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With the extent of that perceived boost now in question, some of those same figures greeted Biden’s announcement with veiled and not-so-veiled gibes.

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The fact someone — whose motive and ideology remain unclear — sought to end his life has led to inevitable gibes about roosting chickens.

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In a later jab that mixes the claims with a cutting gibe at Lamar's height yet again, he asks, “When you put your hands on your girl, is it self-defense ’cause she’s bigger than you?”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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