Sentence examples for nark from inspiring English sources

The narrator, Ross, is a déclassé ex-public schoolboy footloose in pre-war London who earns a crust (the idiom is catching) as a rent collector, nightclub doorman, aspiring poet, ladies' man and copper's nark.

Honestly, all this wheel-spinning is really starting to nark me off.

So if there's one thing that appears to nark Mr Razek, it's any suggestion that the VS spectacles might not be strictly non-sexist exercises, whose models are selected for their appealingness to women and other inspirational qualities.

One day in the summer of 1966, George Wigg MP – paymaster general and the prime minister's nark – confronted me with the news that he "knew where I had been last Saturday" and that the plot, that I had helped to hatch in a Kent country house, would come to nothing.

I hesitate to get a reputation as a coppers' nark, but do Borsetshire constabulary realise that Adam and Ian have been cavorting in a hot tub during a hosepipe ban?

News International has been described in a crown court as a "copper's nark" that "shopped" Sun journalists in order to save senior staff in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal in 2011.

I'm going to die, and I'm probably going to die before you, and I'm slightly narked off about it.

But prepare to be narked by all the queuing, the number of your fellow ascenders and the extraordinary lack of signage and clarity about where you should go and how much it will cost.

And the Czechs are narked because Mr Orban has implied that the decrees whereby ethnic Germans and Hungarians were expelled from Czechoslovakia and had their property taken after the second world war may need revocation.

If the people of Iran's southernmost province all blew at once across the Gulf, one wag remarked, "the wind would carry the Emirates away".The war of words may well have been deliberately engineered by Mr Ahmadinejad, narked at being sidelined in Iran's latest nuclear negotiations with the West (see article).

But many establishments get narked enough by criticism to call in the lawyers.