If you describe someone’s words or voice as ~, you mean that they are saying in an indirect way that something bad is the case.
Marcus kept making ~ remarks...
ADJ disapproval
If you describe someone’s words or voice as ~, you mean that they are saying in an indirect way that something bad is the case.
Marcus kept making ~ remarks...
ADJ disapproval
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012