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1 containing indirect and unkind criticism: --
snide remarks
The report uses phrases like "civic pride"and"civic status" with slightly snide overtones, and this is a pity.
Those sentiments are negatived by the often snide remarks made when attacking the oil industry and the frequent references to the seven sisters.
It is all to easy to make snide remarks about help with the police, local government and the civil service.
That is not supposed in the least to be a snide remark.
I hope we can at least hold the referendum on a basis of policy and not snide remarks.
There is no need to make snide remarks about not having read it.
Instead, we have a continuing campaign of snide implication, instead of getting to the bottom of the facts and dealing with them.
If only as a nation we could be less critical and snide!