[
US
/ˈpɑˌʃɑt/
]
NOUN
- a shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter)
-
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.