solicitous, obsequious, dismissive, disdainful, reverential, cavalier, contemptuous, respectful, condescending, forthright, polite, complaisant, assertive, chummy, circumspect, ungenerous, lenient, effusive, acquiescent, unforthcoming, unassertive, restrained, magnanimous, scornful, timid, censorious, sycophantic, brusque, undemonstrative, genial, arrogant, unsympathetic, businesslike, combative, reverent, paternalistic, subservient, waspish, dilatory, diffident, decorous, talkative, dutiful, incommunicative, noblesse oblige, worshipful, sympathetic, stoic, timorous, judgmental, mannerly, pompous, gracious, parsimonious, haughty, affectionate, pugnacious, sniffy, scrupulous, uncritical, perfunctory, adversarial, standoffish, bossy, imperious, nonchalant, reticent, punctilious, servile, courteous, flippant, contumacious, hypercritical, confrontational, adulatory, empathetic, gentlemanly, glib, dispassionate, conscientious, clubbable, evenhanded, obtuse, humorless, insular, inquisitorial, snobbish, unemotional, obstreperous, amiable, officious, unrevealing, bumptious, unstatesmanlike, prudish, laudatory, truculent, abstemious, politically correct, disinterested, apologetic, docile, submissive, noncommittal, affable, ceremonious, committal, conciliatory, dignified, patronising, defiant, disrespectful

bowed, bowing, deferentially, respected, tom, uncle tom, well-thought-of

deferent, regardful