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snarky

adjective as in judgmental

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Neither snarky frenemies nor lonely achievers, these characters can achieve their dreams only by building one another up.

From Time

Social media has made it very easy for me to hide behind a layer of detachment and be a little snarky.

From Time

Any motion — going to work, coming home from school, chasing a ball, unloading groceries — unleashes a torrent of strobe lights, monkey noises and a snarky TV-show dialogue heavy on racial slurs.

As someone who enjoyed the comic, this adaptation choice initially struck me as slightly perverse — it’s so dour — but I grew to admire it as the show began to introduce the comic’s semi-snarky tone.

From Vox

Then time almost immediately skips forward to a point when it’s safe for the story’s “last man” cis guy protagonist to go on semi-snarky adventures through a United States in the process of rebuilding.

From Vox

“Some of those people who were snarky about it might have wanted to be part of it,” she says.

And then you'd whip out your iPhone and pull up that snarky tweet your friend wrote linking to the E!

The opening monologue was packed with witty—and in some cases, snarky—jokes.

And thanks to camera phones and Twitter, the media megaphone and its ability to be snarky is at an all-time high.

I could always call on Alex for a quote that would be clever but honest and sharp but not snarky.

I say, Luke leant forward confidentially across the rickety green tin table, you know how snarky Pater was about him?

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to snarky, such as: cynical, snide, irascible, irreverent, sarcastic, and spiteful.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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