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as in irritable
easily irritated or annoyed
working all day with such snarky jerks is exhausting
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as in sarcastic
marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings
with champagne as a lubricant, she unleashed an unending series of snarky comments for the duration of the wedding reception
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Recent Examples of snarky
The journalist’s tone was snarky, but there were some direct quotes from my father’s amanuenses.
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Sage Mehta, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Gordon was a sharp, snarky, perceptive, occasionally judgmental but morally sound voice on the music, the business and the people — and judgment was certainly necessary.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
That’s because even with a 26-year gap between albums, the Jesus Lizard are incapable of sounding like anything other than the Jesus Lizard: a seething, snarky noise-rock bulldozer led by untamable wild man Yow’s sneering vocals.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
On the second call, however, Bush Hager finally got an answer — and a snarky response — from Kotb.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
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Sage Mehta, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Gordon was a sharp, snarky, perceptive, occasionally judgmental but morally sound voice on the music, the business and the people — and judgment was certainly necessary.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
That’s because even with a 26-year gap between albums, the Jesus Lizard are incapable of sounding like anything other than the Jesus Lizard: a seething, snarky noise-rock bulldozer led by untamable wild man Yow’s sneering vocals.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
On the second call, however, Bush Hager finally got an answer — and a snarky response — from Kotb.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snarky
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On Monday, after Rodgers and former head coach Robert Saleh had spent several months bickering over topics such as unexcused absences and cadence, the irritable quarterback won out again.Rob Reischel, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
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Within a couple of weeks of wearing the buds, my ears stopped having the irritable side effects.Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 3 Oct. 2024
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Others rocked up in hazmat suits in a sarcastic swipe at China’s stringent Covid control measures, which saw Shanghai locked down for roughly two months and sparked rare protests.Chris Lau, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
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The sentiment is respectable — gun violence is bad — but the song’s satire feels half-baked because Martin just doesn’t have the sarcastic sensibility needed.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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Midway through the first episode of Say Nothing, Dolours Price encounters a fiery scene in West Belfast: a mob of Northern Irish citizens chucking petrol bombs at a police barracks.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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Miller, 39, is a former Capitol Hill staffer who rose to prominence as a fiery Trump speechwriter and key architect of his immigration policies from 2017 to 2021.Elliot Spagat, The Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2024
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Mann at his most satiric has Settembrini contributing an essay to a multivolume project whose purpose is to end suffering.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Others are satiric vignettes—pointed takedowns of sham humanitarians, sham foreign journalists, sham white saviors and their sham schemes to save the continent—whose villains can read more like stock inventions than like surprising ones.Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Snarky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snarky. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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