What's the difference between sarcastic and sarky?

Sarcastic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Sarcastical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Robert Vittek put Slovakia 5-1 ahead on 59 minutes, hundreds were heading for the exits while many of the remaining fans sarcastically cheered the most routine saves from their goalkeeper.
  • (2) Persepolis , the Greek name for Persia, is desperately moving and extremely funny - a little girl's sarcastic love letter to her family.
  • (3) "When you read the book, he sounds more sarcastic and snarky, closer to Holden Caulfield ," he says, "but with Dustin Hoffman it feels genuinely rabbit-in-the-headlights."
  • (4) Now, though, the staycationers are coming and the donkeys are less sarcastic.
  • (5) There's nothing defensive or snippy or sarcastic about his tone when he tells you that he can't act, or carries on as if his entire professional life is a kind of complicated mistake: he's actually rather charming company.
  • (6) "There's the side that wants to go along with it, but there's also a very sarcastic, sceptical side."
  • (7) They make sarcastic remarks about Reader being a so- called “master criminal”.
  • (8) "Here are the internet terrorists," their lawyer Rémy Josseaume sarcastically told the court in the southern town of Rodez on Tuesday.
  • (9) He does not have experience but he has potential.” Mourinho had a sarcastic comment for Fifa, after hearing that the governing body had made a statement about the on-going fallout from Mohamed Salah’s season-long loan move to Roma.
  • (10) It grinds us down until we adopt a worldview that is pessimistic, desensitised, sarcastic and fatalistic.
  • (11) From the opening lines of Vietnam, Grant's set was sad, funny, tortured, sarcastic and, frankly, pure bloody perfection.
  • (12) That match too had its moments – notably when the Serb made a sarcastic racket-slap in response to the crowd’s cheer for a double fault that led to a break in a sloppy second set.
  • (13) The Chelsea manager, José Mourinho , has been fined after his sarcastic appraisal of officials following the defeat by Sunderland.
  • (14) But what Clegg's rightwing and leftwing critics miss, as do predictably sarcastic journalists, is that this is precisely the point.
  • (15) Or as CBS Sports' Zach Harper sarcastically noted : "Can't wait for that nationally televised Heat-Bobcats game coming up."
  • (16) He said Christie laughed and made a sarcastic joke when he learned of Sokolich’s distress over not getting his calls returned.
  • (17) Countering that complaint Israel’s UN ambassador, Ron Prosor, sent what the Israeli mission called a “sarcastic letter” to the security council listing acts of incitement by the Palestinian leadership, including last month’s drive-by shooting of a Jewish activist who had pushed for greater Jewish access to the sacred hilltop compound.
  • (18) The Valencia reporter for Onda Cero radio called it a “lack of respect”, while in AS it was described sarcastically as “English humour”.
  • (19) Not only did it get a sarcastic jeer from the Tories, but it made Vince ratty.
  • (20) Here's where I should warn readers that I may sometimes be sarcastic.

Sarky


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The solution is for Hathaway to spend a year in sarky Manchester, where her attempts to go jogging will be thwarted by 324 days of rain, and if she so much as thinks about telling a Mancunian barmaid that she has poured those lagers fantastically well, she will swiftly learn an aloofness not taught in any American drama school.
  • (2) Someone at In Style is doubtless now wondering why they were sent a letter full of sarkiness and references to 80s movies.
  • (3) Direct observation and physiologic monitoring show that the Sarkis engage in more frequent and extended periods of heavy labor.
  • (4) B. T. Rocha, C. F. Mello, J. J. F. Sarkis and R. D. Dias, British Journal of Nutrition, 63:273-283, 1990).
  • (5) Intrapopulation differences aside, comparison of Sarkis and non-Sarkis with other samples reveals that both lie within the reported range of variation.
  • (6) The members of the Sarki caste have lower heart rates and systolic blood pressure, relative to other castes, at each of three submaximal workloads and during recovery from bicycle ergometer exercise.
  • (7) The BBC governors' programme complaints committee also ruled that the broadcast was not in breach of internal guidelines, though one governor, Angela Sarkis, broke ranks and said she "profoundly disagreed".
  • (8) The Sarkis in this study fall between Phases 2 and 3, as indicated by the total fertility rate (TFR).
  • (9) 3 sub-groups are studied: high caste (Brahmin and Chetri) urban residents, high caste urban fringe residents, and low caste untouchables (Sarki).
  • (10) By the age of 23, she was 15 stone and starring as tardy, sarky Twinkle in Dinnerladies (“All right, keep your scrotum on,” she would tell canteen manager Tony).
  • (11) 9.15pm GMT Simon Jordan, speaking on Sky Sports News, has just made a sarky quip about the generosity of Christoper Samba returning from Anzhi to selflessly help QPR's relegation fight.

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