condescension vs snark

condescension

noun
  • A patronizing attitude or behavior. 

  • The act of condescending; a manner of behaving in an outwardly polite way that nevertheless implies superiority to another; patronizing courtesy toward inferiors. 

snark

noun
  • Snide remarks or attitude. 

  • The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search. 

  • A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment. 

  • A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point. 

verb
  • To express oneself in a snarky fashion. 

How often have the words condescension and snark occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )