ineloquent, sneery, orotund, dostoevskian, sententious, onanistic, unpoetic, teacherly, prolix, nabokovian, sarky, overdetermined, shavian, whiggish, max beerbohm, fustian, choleric, archetypally, pompous, pedantic, nancy mitford, unmodern, nouveau roman, unimprovable, sesquipedalian, larky, unaffecting, bathetic, reproachful, lunkheaded, hemingwayesque, jejune, wordsworthian, irenic, censorious, slyer, exhortatory, danse macabre, schoolboyish, epigrammatic, minatory, overfamiliar, aphoristic, jocose, pettifogging, delusory, swiftian, incorrigibly, disobliging, lumpish, latterday, captious, tricksy, mozartian, pantomimic, demotic, uxorious, solipsistic, acidulous, clubbable, recriminatory, waspish, unintellectual, beethovenian, schoolmasterly, unpolitical, pretentious, prole, rumbustious, scatty, splenetic, maidenly, bon mot, egoistical, womanish, goatish, politer, substanceless, epicene, declamatory, bons mots, polemical, florid, delphic, dadaist, vivifying, neurasthenic, establishmentarian, scabrous, unamusing, patronising, lugubrious, comfortless, chucklesome, grandiloquent, swinish, jamesian, good naturedness, bumptious, billet doux, opera buffa, purblind, bombastic, acerbic, effusive, flamboyant, latinate, obscurantist, polysyllabic, slangy, stilted, ungrammatical, unpretentious, urbane, verbose, adulatory, allusive, arabic, archaizing, arrogant, assertive

repellant, repellent, unpleasant