remark

n.

remark applies to a brief, more or less casual statement of opinion, thought, etc. as in momentarily directing one's attention to something a snide remark about his clothes; an observation is an expression of opinion on something to which one has given some degree of special attention and thought the warden's observations on prison reform; a comment is a remark or observation made in explaining, criticizing, or interpreting something comments on a novel; commentary is usually applied as a collective noun to a series of written notes or spoken comments explaining or interpreting something a commentary on Aristotle's Politics, a running commentary on the game

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