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Inspiring disgust and loathing; repulsive, detestable, repugnant

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Abhorrent

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Not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant; detached, antisocial

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Aloof

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Showing rude and arrogant lack of respect; disrespectful,rude,arrogant

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Insolent

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Filled with anxiety; anxious

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Consternated

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Stubbornly refusing to change one’s behavior

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Obstinate

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Sharp and forthright(especially in style of speaking or writing) ; sarcastic

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Acerbic

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Grimly mocking or cynical ; satirical, sarcastic ; derisive

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Sardonic

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Sign that something bad is likely to happen

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Portentous

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Causing to feel drained of energy or vitality; exhausted

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Enervated

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Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

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Obsequious

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Denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful; untroubled, calm, peaceful, heavenly

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Halcyon

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Wise, insightful, sagacious

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Sapient

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Deeply respectful

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Reverential

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Expressing hate or disapproval; insulting, derogatory, slanderous

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Pejorative

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Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness

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Maudlin

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(of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary; informal, conversational

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Colloquial

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Like a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning

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Pedantic

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Giving a warning or reprimand

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Admonitory

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Looking or sounding sad and dismal

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Lugubrious

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Optimistic or positive, esp. in an apparently bad or difficult situation

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Sanguine

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Of, relating to, or involving strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious writing or speech; critical, hostile, vitriolic

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Polemical

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Complaining in a petulant or whining manner

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Querulous

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A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

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Melancholy

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Direct and outspoken

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Forthright

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Sarcastic in scathing and bitter way

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Caustic

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Truthful and straighforward

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Candid

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Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

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Didactic

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Having or showing a (usually humorous) sharp or critical quality; biting

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Mordant

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Lacking flavor; tasteless, bland

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Insipid

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Formal and dignified

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Solenm

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Excessively cheerful or optimistic person; upbeat

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Pollyannaish

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Modest about or critical of oneself

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Self-deprecating

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Suave, courteous and refined in manner; sophisticated

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Urbane

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Expressing praise and commendation; complimentary, extolling

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Laudatory

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Loud and harsh; grating, rough

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Strident

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To be excessively prideful and arrogant

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Hubristic

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Deeply respected and honored

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Venarated

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Filled with bitter criticism or malice

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Vitriolic

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Arrogantly superior and disdainful

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Haughty