| They fell out on Vietnam, and Johnson retailed nasty gibes that he knew would reach Lippmann's ears. |
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| Scholars contend that men from various African tribes regularly traded gibes about each other's mother. |
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| Having dealt with similar antagonism, I must admit that I cackled gleefully at some of these gibes. |
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| I am less impressed by the claque of backbenchers whose running gibes whenever a minister is on his feet add little to the discussions. |
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| We are prepared to overlook the hurt, the nasty gibes that have been flung at us, and the personal attacks we have suffered. |
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| She often asks them when they are getting married and if she can come, along with other relevant gibes. |
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| Voltaire's gibe about the Holy Roman Empire was literally true but, like all such glib gibes missed the essential point. |
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| Now a gaffe by the Highways Agency and the county council has left Lancastrians open to gibes from their Yorkshire neighbours. |
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| Anderson might get gibes for being a pretty boy, but is respected in the bush and the cities for his grasp on his portfolio. |
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| However, at another level, the nettles may be emblematic of the comments and gibes of women and men. |
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| My char navigates left to right in the room, under the gibes of my companions. |
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| Both editors offered high-minded defences for their cheap gibes. |
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| 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. |
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| In the past, he has responded to Richards's gibes with a contained and rather stately snideness. |
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| Mr Abbott's gibes against her over taxes seem to have increased voters' doubts. Yet Ms Gillard cannot be counted out yet. |
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| Mr. L. at first tried to ignore his partner's gibes, but they became more hurtful, more frequent and more intense over time. |
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| It is easy to make gibes about military leaders who are perfectly prepared to fight the last war. |
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| Even when he hears no gibes or derogatory remarks, something in the looks that meet his eye seems hostile to him. |
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| As for the plagiarism gibes, they may not prove that harmful. |
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| When he gibes at French socialism, just consider the target of his gibes. |
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| This means of access to the nobility attracted the gibes of the gentry. |
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| He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination, with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. |
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| In this the instincts of traditional green politics towards insularity and self-sufficiency, the cause of all those gibes about yoghurt-knitting, are completely mistaken. |
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