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Apathetic

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Indifferent due to lack of energy or concern

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Accusatory

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Charging of wrong doing

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Awe

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Solemn wonder

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Bitter

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Exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief

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Cynical

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Questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people

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Condenscension

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A feeling of superiority

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Callous

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Unfeeling insensitive to feelings

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Contemplative

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Studying, thinking, reflecting on the issue

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Critical

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Finding fault

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Choleric

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Hot – tempered, easily angered

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Contemptuous

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Showing or feeling that something is worthless; lacking respect

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Caustic

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Intense use of sarcasm; stinging, biting

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Conventional

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Lacking spontaneity, originality and individuality

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Disdainful

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Scornful

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Derisive

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Ridiculing, mocking

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Didactic

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Author attempts to educate or instruct the reader

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Earnest

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Intense, a sincere state of mind

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Erudite

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Learned, polished, scholarly

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Fanciful

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Using the imagination

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Forthright

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Directly frank without hesitation

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Gloom

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y darkness, sadness, rejection

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Haughty

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Proud and vain to the point of arrogance

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Indignant

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Marked by anger aroused by injustice

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Intimate

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Very familiar

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Judgmental

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Authoritative and often critical

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Jovial

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Happy

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Lyrical

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Expressing inner feelings, emotional, full of images, songlike

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Matter – of – fact

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Accepting of conditions not fanciful or emotional

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Mocking

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Treating with contempt or ridicule

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Morose

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Gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent

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Malicious

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Purposely hurtful

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Objective

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Unbiased view

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Optimistic

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Hopeful, cheerful

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Obsequious

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Polite and obedient only for Hope of gain or favor

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Patronizing

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Air of condescension

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Pessimistic

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Seeing the worst side of things

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Quizzical

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Odd, eccentric, amusing

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Ribald

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Offensive in speech, gesture

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Reverent

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Treating a subject with honor, respect

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Ridiculeing

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Slightly contemptuous banter

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Reflective

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Illustrating innermost thoughts

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Sarcastic

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Sneering, caustic

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Sardonic

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Scornfully and bitterly sarcastic

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Sincere

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Without deceit or pretense, genuine

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Solemn

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Deeply earnest, grave

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Sanguine

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Optimistic, cheerful

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Whimsical

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Odd, clear, fantastic

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