Tucker laid off the snide tone and tried something else.

"Then ride on your head," said Legolam in a snide tone of voice, "it is much the softer and less valuable."

Enough to characterize the typical snide tone.

The question, in a snide tone, came from a disembodied voice, deep, expressive, and gender-neutral.

But then" (snide tone), "he's got that injunction now, doesn't he?

Instead, we're getting the narrator's snide tone and whimsical invention.

Disliking his snide tone, she said, "Detective, I did not invite him here.

Mr. Simon's snide tone, a known quantity, has seriously compromised his film and theater reviews.

"They won't commit themselves," Brendan said in a mildly snide tone of voice.

Beta spoke in a deep-gravelly voice, but with the same snide tone.