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noundʒʌɪb An insulting or mocking remark; a taunt. 讥讽，嘲笑；嘲弄 对他老对手的讥讽。 Example sentencesExamples - Maybe you chide the folks for owning them when you return for a visit, making knee-jerk gibes at the handlebar mustaches, leisure suits and ironed hair that their sleeves depict.
- The gibes from his own side caused Kerry to overreact.
- Sandra stayed at home, away from the taunts and jibes of her white schoolfellows, and illicitly befriended the children of the family's black nanny.
- Judith couldn't resist the gibe and regretted it as soon as Emma rounded on her.
- Scholars contend that men from various African tribes regularly traded gibes about each other's mother.
- His replies were peppered with small gibes at Hitchens.
- But a caring family couldn't totally protect the young Alíesha from the jibes and taunts of schoolmates and soldiers.
- Having dealt with similar antagonism, I must admit that I cackled gleefully at some of these gibes.
- Three hours later, he emerged from the office waving a batch of handwritten pages and delivering a gibe: ‘You want to read it?’
- Gospel writer John's point in putting this line in Jesus' mouth is almost certainly to take a gibe at the Temple elite.
- Briggs smiled at that, but Deidre ignored the gibe.
- I am less impressed by the claque of backbenchers whose running gibes whenever a minister is on his feet add little to the discussions.
- The latest gibe between the pair came after Warne called Muralidaran ‘thin-skinned’ for pulling out of Sri Lanka's tour of Australia.
- The Shakespearian gibes are by far the most creative.
- The gibes about drugs and EST aside, some people just don't ‘get’ certain innovations, and this is often generational.
- The more outrageous gibes are a source of French amusement.
- That was until the gibes become too much for me.
- We are prepared to overlook the hurt, the nasty gibes that have been flung at us, and the personal attacks we have suffered.
- He went in, eventually, took his seat in the back of Mr. Ford's classroom, ignoring with practiced ease both the gibes of the teacher and the stares of the good kids who had gotten there before the bell rang.
- It began with loud jibes and insults issued at both sides, and quickly developed into a shoving match.
- She often asks them when they are getting married and if she can come, along with other relevant gibes.
- On the way some had salutations for her and some had gibes.
- Voltaire's gibe about the Holy Roman Empire was literally true but, like all such glib gibes missed the essential point.
- His replies were peppered with small gibes.
- ‘The constant gibes in the British press about my love of beauty has long left a false impression of my work,’ he maintains.
- Kelly concludes with a gibe at his colleagues' casual derogation of the blogs.
- His wife, Liz (Janet McTeer), taunts him with sexual jibes.
- Stung by Australian gibes about their dull tactics, they played like the Harlem Globetrotters - and lost to Australia 12-6.
- Both editors offered high-minded defences for their cheap gibes.
- Now a gaffe by the Highways Agency and the county council has left Lancastrians open to gibes from their Yorkshire neighbours.
- Anderson might get gibes for being a pretty boy, but is respected in the bush and the cities for his grasp on his portfolio.
- There was much satisfaction in these stories: at last, the Newfoundlanders had found a vessel for the jibes that had taunted them for years.
- In fact, Simon was no more negative than most critics, but his lively writing style meant that his gibes were more memorable than those of the others.
- The gibe could not be further off the mark, for he is in fact a very proud Jew.
- However, at another level, the nettles may be emblematic of the comments and gibes of women and men.
Synonyms snide remark, cutting remark, taunt, sneer, jeer, insult, barb informal dig, wisecrack, crack, put-down
verb dʒʌɪb [no object]Make insulting or mocking remarks; jeer. 讥讽，嘲笑；嘲弄 some cynics in the media might jibe 一些媒体爱挑刺者或许会嘲讽一番。 Example sentencesExamples - Zia's enterprise gibed with the blurred mission statement of Pakistan.
- Such objections may be seen as the sort of caviling and gibing that often greets attempts to speak across the divide between science and literature.
- The Deputy First Minister joked at the First Minister's expense, jibing at the apparent disunity within McConnell's ranks.
- ‘It was only through the media that I came to know there are such short-cuts to winning national awards,’ he gibes.
- It is all very well for Tariq Ali to gibe at India's neo-liberal economics, but this, alas, is the only show in town.
- Today one can easily gibe at the show's glaring seams and stitches.
- In one day and night, he gibed, ‘all those who had any power and authority were wiped out… till no chief remained to ask after any followers.’
- The compère jibed back ‘Oh, so you are are a futurologist as well?’
- She tipped her glass at Hector as she gibed at the Antarctic and he couldn't have enjoyed it more.
- ‘It's just journalists who are paid to write that stuff,’ Kadyrov jibes, naming one famous reporter who he believes is in the pay of the rebels.
- ‘It's hugely different to writing to a feature film, where you're basically whitewashing it for the producers,’ he jibes.
- Of this character, she gibes further: ‘He takes Viagra.’
- The 19 novels on the list represented, Sexton jibed, ‘a curious incident of authors missing’.
- Think before you jibe, the effects may not seem much to you, but the for the recipient, well it could just push them over the edge.
- This was met with congratulations from the oldies, but the usual jibing remarks from my sister.
- For a man who never quite seemed humble, though he often gibed about humility, it was a moving - and humbling - final effect.
- We boasted the ‘world's longest byline’ at the time and would gibe that we had to print ‘byline continued on next page’ when we ran their pieces.
- ‘If corners had not been invented, we would have been in the game,’ he jibed.
- She crossed her arms across her chest with a defiant look as if expecting him to gibe her.
- Barnes then jibed, ‘Are you getting hot for the next one - the humanitarian attack on Pyongyang?’
Synonyms jeer, taunt, mock, scoff, sneer
OriginMid 16th century (as a verb): perhaps from Old French giber 'handle roughly' (in modern dialect 'kick'); compare with jib2. verbdʒʌɪbdʒaɪb [no object]North American informal Be in accord; agree. 〈北美，非正式〉相一致，符合 the verdict does not jibe with the medical evidence 裁决与医学证据不符。 Example sentencesExamples - An afternoon talking to the protesters, however, had filled her head with data that did not jibe with what she had been told.
- But that doesn't jibe with your partisan rantings.
- This does not jibe with my experience, nor that of most Americans, at least.
- My own experiences didn't jibe with anything these family units went through.
- You don't agree with them, you offer opinions that don't jibe with theirs and you get a target on your back.
- I think this jibes with Xyu's recent contact with the Transducer which, as far as I can tell, is the most recent contact we have on record.
- I'd hoped to put the vignette on the web when it was done, but it doesn't jibe at all with AuthorityJack.
- But the only ‘evidence’ for these upcoming disasters is the output of computer models that don't jibe with reality.
- How does the rise of the big-box-booksellers jibe with the supposed decline in reading?
- Similarly, if I'm in public practice, and they do something that doesn't jibe with my policies, I'm going to change my policies.
- But their working habits didn't jibe: Godrich constantly wanted to press forward, but the Strokes like to labour over every sound.
- The ‘GE to GM’ phrase just doesn't jibe with most people's sense of their options.
- Unknotting privacy dilemmas from first principles can be tricky, or at least lead to results that don't jibe with most people's felt intuitions.
- He claims to be very liberal, but when he's voting it just doesn't jibe with what he says.
- All the pessimism and darkness that come with a far-away war against a hard-to-find enemy just don't jibe with that mojo.
- It's an additional piece of information refuting Atkins-Taubes that happens to jibe with the controlled studies and the government surveys.
- It's not like you have to share the office space with someone who's views don't jibe with yours, so what's the point?
- And the sample menus included in the back of Dr. Atkins's book are of no help because they don't jibe with the instructions in the text.
- It doesn't jibe with the image that a lot of Americans have about this country.
- If Apple does come out with a response, they have to sink down to Napster's level and it doesn't jibe with their type of advertising at all.
OriginEarly 19th century: of unknown origin. verbjībdʒaɪb [no object]North American informal Be in accord; agree. 〈北美，非正式〉相一致，符合 the verdict does not jibe with the medical evidence 裁决与医学证据不符。 Example sentencesExamples - It doesn't jibe with the image that a lot of Americans have about this country.
- Similarly, if I'm in public practice, and they do something that doesn't jibe with my policies, I'm going to change my policies.
- If Apple does come out with a response, they have to sink down to Napster's level and it doesn't jibe with their type of advertising at all.
- My own experiences didn't jibe with anything these family units went through.
- An afternoon talking to the protesters, however, had filled her head with data that did not jibe with what she had been told.
- He claims to be very liberal, but when he's voting it just doesn't jibe with what he says.
- But their working habits didn't jibe: Godrich constantly wanted to press forward, but the Strokes like to labour over every sound.
- You don't agree with them, you offer opinions that don't jibe with theirs and you get a target on your back.
- This does not jibe with my experience, nor that of most Americans, at least.
- Unknotting privacy dilemmas from first principles can be tricky, or at least lead to results that don't jibe with most people's felt intuitions.
- But that doesn't jibe with your partisan rantings.
- It's an additional piece of information refuting Atkins-Taubes that happens to jibe with the controlled studies and the government surveys.
- It's not like you have to share the office space with someone who's views don't jibe with yours, so what's the point?
- And the sample menus included in the back of Dr. Atkins's book are of no help because they don't jibe with the instructions in the text.
- How does the rise of the big-box-booksellers jibe with the supposed decline in reading?
- I think this jibes with Xyu's recent contact with the Transducer which, as far as I can tell, is the most recent contact we have on record.
- I'd hoped to put the vignette on the web when it was done, but it doesn't jibe at all with AuthorityJack.
- But the only ‘evidence’ for these upcoming disasters is the output of computer models that don't jibe with reality.
- All the pessimism and darkness that come with a far-away war against a hard-to-find enemy just don't jibe with that mojo.
- The ‘GE to GM’ phrase just doesn't jibe with most people's sense of their options.
OriginEarly 19th century: of unknown origin. verbjībdʒaɪb [no object]Sailing 1Change course by swinging a fore-and-aft sail across a following wind. they jibed, and the boat turned over - 1.1with object Swing (a sail or boom) across a following wind.
- 1.2 (of a sail or boom) swing or be swung across a following wind.
the skipper was hit by a jibing boom
nounjībdʒaɪb Sailing An act or instance of jibing.
OriginLate 17th century: from obsolete Dutch gijben. |