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snarkasm

snarkasm noun: snarky sarcasm.

Noun

snarkasm (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Snarky sarcasm.
    • ‘You gotta do something for me.’ ‘Newsflash,’ said Stone, looking from side to side, snarkasm flooding his tone.1994, Amy Auden, Wow!, Mainstream, →ISBN, page 210
    • “Glenn, why on Earth would you redecorate this masterpiece? I love it!” “You do?” [laughing] “No! I was using my patented brand of snark-asm.” “Oh!”2009 August 20, Michael D. Eisner, Alex Berger, Eric Fogel, “Pimp My RV” (7:13 from the start), in Glenn Martin, DDS, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Bobby Panache (Alan Tudyk)

Examples of snarkasm in a sentence

  • Brit-wit, in fact, could be seen as the precursor to the communicative style valorized on these beratement panels and on fan/rating communities, namely snark or snarkasm.2010 October 19, Michael Kackman, Marnie Binfield, Matthew Thomas Payne, Allison Perlman, Bryan Sebok, Flow TV: Television in the Age of...
  • Caleb replied: “<Snarkasm On> Yes, but consider: When they do the Wikipedia download, they had to take a snapshot of the site contents.2014 September 30, James Wesley, Rawles, “10 Downloads”, in Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse, Penguin, →ISBN, page 54:
  • sneercasm or snarkasm or scarcasm = sarcasm, depending on how deeply it cuts . . .2023 August 1, Joseph Heywood, “Part IV Limpyspeak/Yooperspeak (Spokenabulary)”, in Limpy's Adult Lexicon: Raw, Politically Incorrect...

Origin of snarkasm

Blend of snark + sarcasm.

Questions about snarkasm

What does snarkasm mean?
Snarkasm means snarky sarcasm.
How do you use snarkasm in a sentence?
Brit-wit, in fact, could be seen as the precursor to the communicative style valorized on these beratement panels and on fan/rating communities, namely snark or snarkasm.
What part of speech is snarkasm?
Snarkasm is a noun.

Words near snarkasm in the dictionary

  1. snarings
  2. snark
  3. snark hunt
  4. snark mark
  5. snark-like
  6. snarkasm
  7. snarkcastic
  8. snarked
  9. snarker
  10. snarkers
  11. snarkier

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