mutters, overacts, skulks, grovels, browbeats, berates, nebbishy, scorns, flails, wheedles, seduces, swaggers, declaims, scolds, lunkheaded, simpering, slinks, preens, retorts, intones, mopes, dissembles, goads, whines, henpecking, prevaricates, pontificates, gloats, coaxes, sashays, teases, sniveling, cajoles, derides, fulminates, pouts, saunters, bawls, sentimentalizes, leers, acquiesces, gesticulates, pities, quippy, pretends, flirts, dunderheaded, chastises, bewitches, doddering, vacillates, sneers, beguiles, chortles, sasses, prattles, monologuing, contrives, old codger, cuckolded, dawdles, hectoring, damns, excoriates, connives, sermonizes, cowers, hoodwinks, wearies, pokes, despises, thunders, skitters, admonishes, philosophizes, rustles, sidles, chides, fusses, uncoils, hypnotizes, smirking, castigates, scuttles, lolls, banters, soliloquizing, growls, loathes, waylays, cackles, snorts, befriends, dallies, sulks, cavorts, mewl, confronts, careens, huffs, interrogates, assails