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- adverb UK, informal In a
sarky manner;sarcastically .
Etymologies
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sarky + -ly
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Examples
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"If he carries on like this, he might get his own TV show!" he said sarkily.
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Dang, just realised 'humble apologies' was sarkily meant, not heart rending beating-of-brow stuff, and hot footed it back to Miss Snark's to beg her to withdraw my comment.
HH Com 138 Miss Snark 2006
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"Bit of a coincidence having these glaciers melting when there's all this extra CO2 in the air," interrupted Humphrys sarkily, while Stott was trying to make an intelligent point about the AGW industry being an 'inverted pyramid' with an awful lot of policy being based on the claims of a very tiny number of scientists.
News » Julie Henry James Delingpole 2009
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