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Ironic

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Subtle mockery

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Cynical

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Questions the basic goodness of people

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Irate

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Very angry

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Facetious

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Playfully humorous

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Skeptical

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Questioning

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Dogmatic

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Assertive, arrogant

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Acerbic

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Caustic, biting, stinging, as in an acerbic verbal attack

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Denigrating

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To put down

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Sardonic

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Mocking

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Disdainful

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Scornful

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Resigned

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Given up to a situation

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Remote

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Distant, aloof, hard to reach

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Indifferent

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Apathetic, not interested

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Maudlin

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Tear jerking

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Fallacious

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Based on a fallacy, something false

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Ambivalent

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Indecisive

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Apathetic

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Uncaring, uninvolved

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Callous

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Unfeeling

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Caustic

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Biting, intense use of sarcasm

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Contemptuous

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Scornful

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Morose

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Very gloomy and sad

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Rancorous

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Hateful

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Sardonic

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Very sarcastic and scornful

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Wistful

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Full of wishful ywarnjng

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Empathetic

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To be able to empathize, to put yourself in the place of someone else to understand how that person feels

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Reflective

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Thinking, pondering, reflecting on a problem, idea, or issue

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Jocular

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Joking

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Contemplative

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Reflective, contemplating things

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Academic

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Scholarly

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Candid

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Open, honest, frank

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Levity

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Humor

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Jovial

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Happy

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Nostalgic

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Thinking well of the past

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Sentimental

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Resulting from feeling rather than reason or thought

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Whimsical

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Playful, funny, or not giving real thought to the act as in impulsiveness, can also mean odd or freakish

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Idealistic

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Could be positive as in art where imagination is valued over the copying of objects as they really are; could be negative if it means that a person is controlled by emotion rather than reason and thought