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Aggravated

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Made more severe or intense; incited, especially deliberately, to anger (intensified, heightened)

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Agitated

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Troubled emotionally and usually deeply

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Apprehensive

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Mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger; In fear of possible evil (worried, frightful)

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Dejected

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Affected or marked by low spirits

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Despairning

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Arsing from or marked by loss of hope

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Disturbed

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Afflicted with anxiety, uneasiness, trouble, or grief

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Foreboding

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A feeling of evil to come; prophetic

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Grave

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Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; requiring serious thought

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Hollow

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Devoid of significance or force; not solid

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Horrific

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Grossly offensive to decency or morality; Causing fear

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Morose

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Showing a brooding ill humor; glum

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Mournful

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Expressing sorrow

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Numb

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Lacking sensation; so frighted as to be unable to move; stunned

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Ominous

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Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

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Paranoid

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Suffering from paranoia; constantly anxious or afraid

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Pitiful

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Bad; Unfortunate

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Poignant

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Arousing affect; Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings

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Resigned

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Unprotesting acceptance of something: agreement to something, usually given reluctantly but without protest

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Staid

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Characterized by dignity and propriety ; sedated

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Sad

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Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

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Serious

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concerned with work or important matters; causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

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Sober

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Not affected by a chemical substance; dignified or somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

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Solemn

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Committed to keeping promises; Characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions

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Somber

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Lacking brightness or color; grave or gloomy

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Admonitory

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Serving to warn; Expressing reproach especially as a corrective

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Allusive

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Characterized by indirect references

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Apathetic

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Showing little or no emotion or animation

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Callous

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Emotionally hardened

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Candid

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Directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; informal or natural, as if caught of guard.

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Clinical

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Scientifically detached; Unemotional

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Didactic

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Instructive

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Earnest

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Firm or humorless belief in the validity of your opinions; Not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal

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Fervent

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Characterized by intense emotion

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Forthright

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Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion (Candid)

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Frivolous

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Not serious in content or attitude

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Haughty

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Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

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Inquisitive

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Showing curiosity

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Loud

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Tastelessly showy; With force

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Lyrical

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Expressing deep emotion

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Nostalgic

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Unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or people

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Objective

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Undistorted by emotion or personal bias

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Obsequious

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Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

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Pretentious

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Intended to attract notice and impress others

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Reflective

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Deeply or seriously thoughtful

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Reminiscent

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Serving to bring to mind

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Vexed

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Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

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Wistful

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Showing sadness

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Zealous

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Marked by active interest and enthusiasm

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Caustic

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Harsh or corrosive in tone

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Condescending

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Treat someone as if they are less intelligent than yourself

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Contemptuous

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Expressing extreme contempt (hatred)

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Cynical

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Believing the worst of human nature and motives

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Disdainful

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Expressing extreme contempt (hatred); showing arrogant superiority

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Droll

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Comical in an odd or whimsical manner

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Facetious

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Cleverly amusing in tone

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Flippant

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Showing inappropriate levity (frivolous; light-minded)

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Insolent

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Marked by casual disrespect; unreastrained by convention or propriety

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Irreverent

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Showing lack of due respect

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Maliciuous

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Having a nature of or resulting from spite, evil, etc

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Pompous

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Puffed up with vanity

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Ribald

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Humorously vulgar

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Ridiculing

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In a manner intended to ridicule or make fun of

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Sardonic

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Ironically humorous; scornful and mocking

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Satiric

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Exposing human folly to ridicule

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Sharp

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Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; practical hardheaded intelligence

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Whimsical

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Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

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Wry

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Humorously sarcastic or mocking

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Audacious

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Invulnerable to fear or intimidation; disposed to venture and take risks

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Beligerent

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Characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

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Brash

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Offensively bold

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Choloric

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Easily moved to anger

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Coarse

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Lacking refinement or cultivation or tastes; Low or inferior quality

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Condemnatory

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Containing or imposing condemnation or censure

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Disgruntedly

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State of sulky dissatisfaction

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Facetious

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Cleverly amusing in tone

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Haughty

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Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

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Indignant

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Angered at something unjust or wrong

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Inflammatory

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Arousing to action or rebellion

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Superficial

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Having little substance or significance; Near the surface

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Surly

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Inclined to anger or bad feeling with overtones of menace

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Amiable

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Disposed to please

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Benevolent

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Intending or showing kindness; generous

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Ecstatic

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Feeling great rapture or delight

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Exuberant

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Joyously unrestrained

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Fanciful

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Indulging in or influenced by fancy; Existing only in the imagination

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Jovial

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Full of or showing high-spiritied merriment

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Jubilant

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Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success

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Reverent

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Feeling or showing profound respect or veneration

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