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  • accusatory - charging of wrong doing
  • apathetic - indifferent due to lack of energy or concern
  • awe - solemn wonder
  • bitter - exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief
  • callous - unfeeling, insensitive to feelings of others
  • caustic - intense use of sarcasm; stinging, biting
  • choleric - hot-tempered, easily angered
  • condescension; condescending - a feeling of superiority
  • contemplative - studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue
  • contemptuous - showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks respect
  • conventional - lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality
  • critical - finding fault
  • cynical - questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people
  • derisive - ridiculing, mocking
  • didactic - author attempts to educate or instruct the reader
  • disdainful - scornful
  • earnest - intense, a sincere state of mind
  • erudite - learned, polished, scholarly
  • fanciful - using the imagination
  • forthright - directly frank without hesitation
  • gloomy - darkness, sadness, rejection
  • haughty - proud and vain to the point of arrogance
  • indignant - marked by anger aroused by injustice
  • intimate - very familiar
  • jovial - happy
  • judgmental - authoritative and often having critical opinions
  • lyrical - expressing a poet’s inner feelings; emotional; full of images; song-like
  • malicious - purposely hurtful
  • matter-of-fact - accepting of conditions; not fanciful or emotional
  • mocking - treating with contempt or ridicule
  • morose - gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent
  • objective - an unbiased view-able to leave personal judgments aside
  • obsequious - polite and obedient in order to gain something
  • optimistic - hopeful, cheerful
  • patronizing - air of condescension
  • pessimistic - seeing the worst side of things; no hope
  • quizzical - odd, eccentric, amusing
  • reflective - illustrating innermost thoughts and emotions
  • reverent - treating a subject with honor and respect
  • ribald - offensive in speech or gesture
  • ridiculing - slightly contemptuous banter; making fun of
  • sanguineous - arduous, bloodthirsty, brutal, murderous AND optimistic, cheerful
  • sarcastic - sneering, caustic
  • sardonic - scornfully and bitterly sarcastic
  • satiric - ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach
  • sincere - without deceit or pretense; genuine
  • solemn - deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection
  • whimsical - odd, strange, fantastic; fun
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