curt, brusk, gruff, pugnacious, combative, sarcastic, surly, dismissive, brash, abrasive, truculent, rude, condescending, irascible, snappish, acerbic, snippy, confrontational, taciturn, genial, blunt, prickly, disdainful, jocular, pushy, haughty, officious, forceful, tactful, waspish, undiplomatic, effusive, obsequious, laconic, phlegmatic, argumentative, polite, arrogant, cavalier, forthright, terse, contemptuous, imperious, discourteous, solicitous, intemperate, boorish, accusatory, stoic, belligerent, scornful, supercilious, bumptious, unsympathetic, humorless, glib, nonchalant, demonstrative, amiable, petulant, affable, schoolmarmish, professorial, cantankerous, bombastic, chatty, wry, tactless, ungracious, exasperated, deadpan, graceless, impolitic, deferential, cranky, insolent, businesslike, bossy, flippant, diffident, impertinent, unmannerly, hotheaded, schoolmasterly, sardonic, choleric, unflappable, prolix, verbose, unexpressive, unquotable, unforthcoming, unemotional, teacherly, gentlemanly, crabby, caustic, standoffish, insouciant, undemonstrative, brutish, steely, sparkling, acuteness, addenda, adrian, advanced, alarms, alex, allowance, alms, angelo, anglo, animation, anna, annoyances, ante, antidotes, apologies, ardor, ardour, artifice, peremptory, ingratiating, courteous, insulting, noncommittal, impolite, disrespectful

abrupt, crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured

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