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Amiable

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easy to get along with, pleasant, friendly

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Audacious

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Bold, daring

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Apathetic

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Without interest

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Belligerent

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Hostile, aggressive, threatening

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Benevolent

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Kindly

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Bombastic

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High-sounding, pompous language

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Caustic

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Biting, sarcastic in a burning way

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Choleric

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Easily angered, irritable

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Complacent

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Satisfied

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Conciliatory

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Attempt to reconcile or make amends

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Condescending

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Patronisingly, speaking down to

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Colloquial

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Characteristic of informal speech or writing

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Cynical

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Denying the sincerity of people’s motives or action

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Didactic

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Intended for instructions; morally insincere

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Insolent

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Rude

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Histrionic

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Theatrical and overly dramatic

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Laudatory

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Praising

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Obsequious

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Much to willing to serve or obey; fawning

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Ominous

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Portending evil or harm

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Opprobrious

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Shaming, abusive

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First Pedantic

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Ostentatious in one’s learning; overly concerned with detail

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Second Pedantic

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Narrow minded; one who emphasis trivial point

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Panegyric

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A formal speech or piece of writing praising a person or event; high praise

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Pompous

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Arrogant; self-important and overbearing, pretentious

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Prosaic

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Commonplace, dull

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Restrained

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Holding back

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Rancorous

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With bitter hatred or ill will

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Ribald

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Vulgar, indecent speech

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Saccharine

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Too sweet, artificially so

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Sardonic

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Disdainfully mocking

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Snooty

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Stuck-up, arrogant

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Sophomoric

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Opinionated; immature

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Surly

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Bad tempered, rude, uncivilised

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Truculent

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Cruel, savage

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Vitriolic

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Sharp or bitter speech, hateful, scathing

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Acerbic

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Biting, sharp, harsh

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Droll

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Amusing in an odd way

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