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marked by governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism; feeling rather than reason or thought;

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sentimental

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expressive of narrow and conventinal moral attitude

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moralistic

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to reproach or challenge in mocking or insulting manner

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taunting

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excessively embellished in style or language;

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turgid

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disdainfully or skeptically humerous; derisively mocking

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sardonic

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insultingly contemptuous in speech or conduct

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insolent

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bombastic, pompous

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turgid 2

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hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence, shy, reserved, unassertive

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diffident

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given to capricious notions, odd notions, or fanciful humor

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whimisical

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intentional inflicting of pain by deriding, taunting, or ridiculing

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sarcastic

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trenchant, wit, irony used to expose and dicredit vice or folly, intent is censure and reprobation

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satiric

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narrowly, stodgily, ostentatiously learned; making a show of knowledge, unimaginative or uduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge

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pedantic

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expressive of affected, unwarrented, or exaggeraged importance, worth, stature

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pretentious

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expressing sorrow often for something now past

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elegiac

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feeling of contempt for what is beneath one

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disdainful

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mournful, especially exaggeragtedly or affectedly mournful

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lugubrious

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anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean

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indignant

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speak or address in a witty and teasing manner

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bantering

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lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge

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insipid 2

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honest sincere expression; absence of deception; disposed to criticize severely; blunt

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candid

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lacking proper respect or seriousness

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flippant

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to assume an air or superiourity

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condescending

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adopting an air of condenscension towards; to trea haughtily or cooly

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patronizing

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humourous or funny; not serious

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facetious

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analytical or coolly dispassionate

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clinical

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tending to excite anger, disorder, or tumult; seditious

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inflammatory

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riducle by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation

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burlesque

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unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience

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fanciful

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aloof objectivity usually free from prejudice or self-interest

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detached

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contemptuously distrustful of human nature and motives

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cynical

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impressively direct and decisive in mannner or presentation

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incisive

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implied or indirect reference especially in literature

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allusive

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excessively demonstrative

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effusive

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used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversations

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colloquial

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having or showing.. sympathetic

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compassionate

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not partial or biased; treating or affecting all equally

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impartial

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overberaring exhibiting boldness or effrontery; impudent

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insolent 2

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lacking taste or savor; tasteless;

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insipid

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dull flat

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insipid 3

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marked by or reflective of narrow interstes and sympathies; small minded

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petty

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pulsative with life, vigor or activity

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vibrant

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lacking proper respect or seriousness

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irreverent

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vivid, moving, strking, emotional

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dramatic

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designed or intended to teach

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didactic

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expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived wihout distortion by personal feeling, prejudices, or interpretations, free from bias

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objective