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snarkasm (uncountable)

1. (slang) Snarky sarcasm.
   • 1994, Amy Auden, Wow!‎, Mainstream, →ISBN, page 210:

     ‘You gotta do something for me.’ ‘Newsflash,’ said Stone, looking from side to side, snarkasm flooding his tone.

   • 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):

     “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!”

   • 2010 October 19, Michael Kackman, Marnie Binfield, Matthew Thomas Payne, Allison Perlman, Bryan Sebok, Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence‎, Routledge, →ISBN, page 65:

     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. Snark, a hybrid of “snide” and “remark," is a biting, casual verbal attack. Its subtle insult comprises a tone that acts as a weapon to cut its target down to size.

   • 2014 September 30, James Wesley, Rawles, “10 Downloads”, in Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse‎, Penguin, →ISBN, page 54:

     Caleb replied: “<Snarkasm On> Yes, but consider: When they do the Wikipedia download, they had to take a snapshot of the site contents. At any given time, especially Saturday evenings when college students have been drinking, some of those pages are being vandalized. So just consider that the Idi Amin Wikipedia bio page we get on DVD might say, ‘General Idi A. Meany, Notorious Egg Sucker, President of Bananaland...’ <Snarkasm Off>”

   • 2023 August 1, Joseph Heywood, “Part IV Limpyspeak/Yooperspeak (Spokenabulary)”, in Limpy's Adult Lexicon: Raw, Politically Incorrect, Improper & Unexpurgated As Overheard & Noodled‎, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 176:

     sneercasm or snarkasm or scarcasm = sarcasm, depending on how deeply it cuts . . .

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:snarkasm.