deprecating, ineloquent, eulogistic, rebarbative, delphic, jejune, split infinitive, politically incorrect, unquotable, womanish, unladylike, condescending, teacherly, infelicitous, dialectal, accusative, folk etymology, schoolboyish, schoolmasterly, denunciatory, pejorative, derogative, vulgar, unchivalrous, derisive, sesquipedalian, tactless, disobliging, politer, captious, reflexive pronoun, jamesian, aphoristic, unmannerly, demeaning, racialist, indiscrete, prolix, gnomic, denotative, sententious, lavatorial, contemptuous, dismissive, sexist, genitive, euphemistic, flippant, subjunctive mood, sarcastic, nonracist, ungrammatical, unembarrassed, attributive, snide, onomatopoetic, terminological, connotative, brusk, glib, ungentlemanly, bromidic, uncouth, monosyllabic, johnsonian, indecorous, unacademic, nonliteral, unsavoury, arthur schopenhauer, reductionistic, choicer, obiter dicta, unpoetic, parodic, immoderate, uncomplimentary, william hazlitt, schoolmarmish, intransitive, parti pris, descriptive, unamusing, lexicographical, disparaging, jesuitical, whiggish, irenic, infra dig, sneery, mrs. malaprop, jocose, uncharitable, leon battista alberti, nabokovian, unintellectual, politically correct, hemingwayesque, fuddy, nancy mitford, undiplomatic, coarsest, noncommittal, committal, ironical, apologetic, condemnatory, depreciatory, disrespectful, jocular, sardonic, irreverent, patronising, ingratiating

belittling, deprecative, depreciative, slighting