Sentence examples for personal dig from inspiring English sources

His latest broadside against Obama could charitably be considered no more than a hard personal dig at Obama with no inference that he personally wished him dead.

It makes a big mistake by not concentrating on the real issue but making a snide personal dig at a public figure's private conduct.

But Mr. Brown's remarks were not enough for George Osborne, the Conservative Party's shadow chancellor, who has never made a secret of his loathing for the prime minister and who took the chance to get in a little personal dig.

In a personal dig that he wrote at the last minute Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Romney told the president to "take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America".

Pop singer Taylor Swift, who had herself been nominated, took this as a personal dig and questioned Minaj's support for other female artists: "@NickiMinaj I've done nothing but love & support you.

But according to the co-founder of PayPal, that wasn't meant as a personal dig on Twitter's business.

The race has been bad tempered, characterized by personal digs and unpleasant incidents.

But the arguments were all about quality, despite the personal digs.

In a bruising French presidential race increasingly peppered with personal digs and invective, the socialist frontrunner François Hollande has sometimes taken comfort in his rural constituency of Corrèze in the Limousin.

It's been close to two decades since Letterman lost out to Leno in getting the "Tonight Show," but he'd clearly kept a flask of bitterness in his desk for emergencies, and his personal digs at Leno during the couple of weeks that NBC's melodrama played out in January were ugly and immature.

For the first time this year, we polled reporters and partners from our foreign-language editions in Russia, Poland, Turkey, Israel and China to rank the countries that are the most and least open to Forbes' financial and personal digging.