reproach vs snark

reproach

noun
  • A mild rebuke, or an implied criticism. 

  • Disgrace or shame. 

  • An object of scorn. 

verb
  • To disgrace, or bring shame upon. 

  • To criticize or rebuke (someone). 

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 reproach and snark occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )