snarky

1. Rudely sarcastic or disrespectful; snide.
2. Irritable or short-tempered; irascible.

[From dialectal snark, to nag, from snark, snork, to snore, snort, from Dutch and Low German snorken, of imitative origin.]

The Hollywood Reporter website noted disapprovingly that a write-up by Matt Drudge entitled "Kong Bombs?" had apparently influenced at least one reader to pass on the new movie:

"...in this media-saturated moment, Hollywood doesn't just have to worry about genuine word-of-mouth coming from moviegoers who actually attend a movie before spreading the word -- good or bad -- it also has to defend against secondary word-of-mouth based on little more than a half-baked opinion or a snarky headline."

Link: Studios have to battle snarky media reports

Posted January 3, 2006.

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