ineloquent, wordier, overfamiliar, contentless, unquotable, affectless, unpoetic, overdetermined, split infinitive, denotative, exhortatory, hortatory, schoolmasterly, sesquipedalian, trembly, delphic, dostoevskian, prolix, bathetic, hemingwayesque, teacherly, eggheaded, johnsonian, toneless, onomatopoetic, existentialist philosophy, somnambulistic, polysyllabic, mot juste, unamusing, substanceless, acidulous, humorless, winkingly, orotund, juiceless, lexicographical, thickheaded, swiftian, indistinctive, uptightness, platitudinous, wittedness, zipless, fustian, abstract noun, unpublishable, aphoristic, eulogistic, rebarbative, blither, dopier, uninflected, birdbrained, rote, unaffecting, nabokovian, disobliging, fuddled, jocose, venereal, captious, subjunctive, lit crit, dangling modifier, monologuing, troglodytic, narcotized, onanistic, unrevealing, quippy, undogmatic, jesuitical, epiphanic, praiseful, lunkheaded, unmelodic, truthy, schoolmarmish, unoffensive, slyer, cri de coeur, epigrammatic, unrepressed, obtuse, archetypally, literalized, trite, simpleminded, splenetic, unheroic, sententious, mirthless, monkish, cosmopolite, goony, waffly, ungifted, misunderestimate, ungrammatical, whiggish, lugubrious, banal, commonplace, impolite, nonsensical, unintelligible, enigmatic, enigmatical, glib, incautious, indelicate, interjected, laconic, murmured, noncommittal, pithy, polite, tactless, terse

corny, platitudinal, unoriginal