Potshot

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Definitions and meanings of "Potshot"

What do we mean by potshot?

A random or easy shot. noun

A criticism made without careful thought and aimed at a handy target for attack. noun

A shot taken at an easy or random target. noun

Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot. noun

To fire potshots. verb

A shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter) noun

Criticism aimed at an easy target and made without careful consideration noun

A shot taken at an easy or random target.

Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.

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The word "potshot" in example sentences

Otherwise it just seems like another potshot from the peanut gallery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My only "potshot" is that I feel that the main contributors of this disgraceful escapade, should have all their assets & bank accounts etc., confiscated & sold & the money should be put into an account to help reestablish companies that were not involved but are paying the price of someone elses greed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is a bit pathetic that reviewers "potshot" a film simply due to the lack of a pre-screening. only shows just how useless a review can be when it's all subjective - and often biased. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Letterman also took the kind of potshot no liberal politician would be forced to endure, cracking that Palin “was in New York to pick up some ’slutty flight attendant’ lipstick.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or do they get upset that the media is taking yet another easy potshot at their clear lack of sensibility? ❋ Bryan Young (2012)

Meantime, no IDF soldier would dare take a potshot at the American military. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maybe Rahm or somebody is taking a potshot at Nelson for nixing Obama's fav Gration. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh boy, Merkley takes a potshot and gets a headline. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Buried in the president's town hall remarks could be a veiled potshot at the Left for not being more "reasonable" on Social Security. ❋ Daniel Marans (2011)

AGAIN - HuffPost Hill's own Paranoid Self-Loathing GOP Lobbyist, whose two favorite things to do when he's bored are investigating the eyes on the bus advertisement that follow him and making fun of Melanie Sloan, today took a potshot at the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's executive director. ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)

This was around the time that somebody took a potshot at the bleachers. ❋ Bruce Bennett (2011)

Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, defended the government's method while taking a potshot at Biggs and his confederates. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sure, throw a potshot because it went in the ocean, but it had a scientific rationale. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even throw in a few Hitler jokes since Brooks can't pass up taking at least one potshot at the villain of the millennium in each of his films. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After a tombstone-etched director's credit, we see the first of many incomplete acts, and what could be viewed as a a ham-fisted potshot at the end of a species' specious Empire: a white stretch limo, stuck, its very length choking a too-sharp curve in a castle road, its newlywed passengers forced to abandon their gilded chariot. ❋ Michael Vazquez (2012)

Such as the hunter who comes looking for the money and takes a potshot at Brody - or the German shepherd who appears and acts as a companion as Brody tries to find his way to civilization. ❋ Marshall Fine (2011)

Also, the regime has committed brutal crimes such as torturing young teenagers some under the age of 15 and subsequently releasing their images and videos to taking potshot at demonstrators. ❋ Majid Rafizadeh (2011)

Maicon cracks a long-range potshot at goal, but it fizzes wide. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The film takes a wicked potshot at therapy: Dafoe's character is a cognitive therapist whose blithe idea that "thinking patterns" are all that matter and that "Freud is dead" is proven dead wrong by the revenge of the unconscious in the film. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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