gibe

Example Sentences

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While the term has come to be seen as an admirable quality in a leader who can overcome deficiencies that would doom anyone else, Mrs. Schroeder’s gibe was not intended as a compliment.

From Washington Post

That drew a daylong series of gibes on social media, with Ukrainians pointing out that Moscow had suffered a series of humiliating defeats in the nearly one year since launching the full-scale invasion.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet Haire, the former GOP chair, noted that Hogan did his fair share of belittling adversaries, such as calling the 2022 Republican gubernatorial nominee not “mentally stable,” among other gibes.

From Washington Post

More often the gibes between Biden and McCarthy have followed the conventions of election-year politics, focused on each other’s policy positions, not character or personal issues.

From Washington Post

There’s a scattershot quality to the gibes and insufficient development of its central idea, that of a woman aspiring to the life and renown of a dramatist.

From Washington Post