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British

nark

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verb

British

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of nark
Verb
As home secretary, Theresa May narked cops by lecturing them in public and cutting back on their powers to stop and search passers-by. The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nark
Noun
  • Frizer and Skeres were fraudsters, and the sinister Poley was an informer, crucial to the exposure of the Babington Plot.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Option 2: If one prisoner informs while the other stays silent, the informer will go free while the silent one receives the harshest sentence.
    Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Verb
  • The New York Yankees were annoyed by the way several members of the 2024 Dodgers spent the offseason taking potshots at their World Series opponent.
    Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • While some fans weren’t overly concerned about the picture, arguing the players were just having fun, others were annoyed to see Bronco athletes decked out in the gear of a regional school.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • After planting the seeds of a murder-for-hire plot, Kimball reported to the FBI that Ennis was planning to have witnesses killed, and shortly thereafter, was granted confidential informant status.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The animosity between the two boiled over when suspicions grew among the Joneses that Brandon was Marty Baker’s secret informant, after a Skeet associate spotted Brandon and Baker having lunch together in Mentone.
    Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Reviewing pages have been thinned by the forces of history and technology; few Pynchon skeptics anymore bother to take the time to read the novels and register their objections.
    Book Marks October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But Bob Say, owner of Los Angeles’ Freakbeat Records, for one, isn’t all that bothered.
    Roy Trakin, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These early jolts serve as canaries in the coal mine.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Finally, initial jobless claims will be out Thursday morning, and the market will be looking for additional confirmation that the spike two weeks ago more of an anomaly than a canary in the coal mine.
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His eerie calm seems to irritate Dawn even more than a candidly emotional confrontation would have done.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The cranky and irritating backseat driver, who bums a lift midway through the Griswolds' adventure, also has with her the easily excitable pooch Dinky.
    Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Don’t let those small scratches bug you—just use a little Bar Keeper’s Friend to buff them out.
    Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The singer admitted that he bugs Brown and his son for constant updates on the baby girl.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.
    Fatma Tanis, NPR, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Leatherface attacks, but the real villains turn out to be the townsfolk who persecuted the Sawyers after the original massacre.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025

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“Nark.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nark. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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