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passing comment

NOUN
  1. an incidental remark

How To Use passing comment In A Sentence

  • This idea deserves more than passing comment.
  • St. Ignatius was the first churchman to talk about the church's role in marriage (and he did so in a couple of passing comments). Douglas Kmiec comes out against Proposition 8...
  • It was just a passing comment, he didn't go on about it.
  • They were young guys themselves and they kept passing comments.
  • It was just a passing comment, he didn't go on about it.
  • I think I had a passing comment about having tea but not being able to sit back on the sofa for fear of denting it, at which point they extracted a story about my relatives in the Lake District from me.
  • He is more interested in passing comment on the personal foibles and conduct of elite men. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Only a passing comment, but such carelessness has probably wrecked my son's future as a prize-winning novelist.
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