preemptory, obiter dictum, contumacious, formalistic, mutatis mutandis, fortiori, stentorian, coercive, categorical, dilatory, dictatorial, lugubrious, unavailing, auxiliary verb, ultra vires, punctilious, purposive, tautological, contemptuous, locus classicus, cogent, arbitrary, ex tempore, unpersuasive, ipse dixit, initio, interlocutory, res ipsa loquitur, imperious, florid, condign, impertinent, prolix, brusque, accusatory, forceful, interrogatory, deferential, rebarbative, denunciatory, discursive, sophistic, unmannerly, admonitory, graceless, interrogative, undramatic, declamatory, perfunctory, timorous, unpoetic, ad hominem, captious, peculiar, schoolmarmish, aphoristic, constitutional, indecorous, judicious, otiose, compos mentis, mot juste, lachrymose, magisterial, injudicious, hieratic, inapposite, irrebuttable, ameliorative, accusative, solipsistic, purposeful, conclusory, compellable, obiter, obiter dicta, recondite, teleological, sophistical, syllogistic, noblesse oblige, demotic, prefatory, positivistic, unconvincing, justifiable, explicable, parsimonious, highhanded, vexatious, res gestae, grandiloquent, justiciable, adjectival, incantatory, nonsuit, vindictive, tactful, waspish, persuasive, unpremeditated, ex post facto, curt, imperative, terse, categoric, emphatic, committal, forthright, laconic, noncommittal, stern, conciliatory, defiant, minatory, urgent, apodictic, boastful

brusk, brusque, curt, demand, shortp, ultimatum

autocratic, bossy, commanding, decisive, dominating, domineering, high-and-mighty, imperative, magisterial