prolix, pedantic, unpoetic, sesquipedalian, disdainful, priggish, supercilious, solipsistic, pettifogging, untutored, mulish, blinkered, leaden, florid, ponderous, jamesian, doltish, timorous, dostoevskian, wordsworthian, turgid, obtuse, rheumy, querulous, curmudgeonly, jejune, humorless, unaccommodating, waspish, crabby, dogmatic, sententious, nabokovian, incorrigibly, unassertive, haughty, rebarbative, myopic, substanceless, overlarge, etiolated, whiggish, inexpressive, latinate, cobwebbed, overdetermined, digressive, insouciant, choleric, lumpish, aphoristic, wittedness, uncomprehending, legalistic, laurence sterne, ingrown, juiceless, bilious, falstaffian, bumptious, nancy mitford, hemingwayesque, polysyllabic, censorious, lugubrious, moony, proprietorial, orotund, shavian, depthless, overweening, chinless, schoolmasterly, sidelong, unpretty, saturnine, dyspeptic, unlovely, doctrinaire, bromidic, overbearing, reductive, unvaried, condescending, manichaean, unimaginative, unreflective, picaresque, recriminatory, crusty, deracinated, gnomish, unaffecting, unsympathetic, circumscribed, indistinctive, hypochondriacal, barnacled, lazy, cockeyed, johnsonian, pellucid, irreverent, diffident, jovial, natured, sprightly, unreadable, vivacious, artless, crotchety, enigmatic, gentlest, indecipherable, kind, kindest, peevish, prosy, reticent, slovenly, undecipherable

bad-tempered, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-natured, ill-tempered