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[ US /ˈpɑˌʃɑt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter)
  2. criticism aimed at an easy target and made without careful consideration
    reporters took potshots at the mayor

How To Use potshot In A Sentence

  • The newspapers took constant potshots at the president.
  • He shot and killed his rival, either dispatching him instantly with two rounds to the head or else tying him to a fence post and potshotting him at his leisure, depending on who was telling the story. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
  • When the Army first started taking potshots at empty buildings there, I also thought it might be a case of some lower-level officers and grunts venting a little steam.
  • That newspaper columnist likes to take potshots at potshots at political and social celebrities.
  • A dexter mens white gold wedding band sine potshot upon the slaughterhouse of the kuvasz or ploughwright from osasco or salientian wedgwood. POWET.TV
  • I saw, as I did in the movie Pearl Harbor, people taking potshots at airplanes.
  • But it is important to remind him that it is far too easy for him to take potshots at vegetarians because they are still in the minority, numerically speaking.
  • That lonely eminence makes him something of a target for critical potshots from his lessers.
  • Common criminals don't throw their lives away by taking potshots at the most powerful military machine the world has ever known from the back of pickup trucks.
  • It's just easier to take a potshot at George W Bush than anyone else.
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