orotund, saturnine, owlish, shavian, dandyish, schoolmasterly, epicene, priggish, tweedy, waspish, byronic, schoolboyish, teacherly, unpoetic, lugubrious, oxonian, rebarbative, erudite, sphinxlike, delphic, droll, professorial, nabokovian, falstaffian, hieratic, whiggish, affectless, uninflected, aquiline, raffish, patrician, imperturbable, aphoristic, clubbable, bookish, gnomic, prolix, uxorious, rakish, demotic, nancy mitford, irenic, jamesian, hemingwayesque, insouciant, pompous, oracular, unexcitable, urbane, etiolated, rumpled, lumpish, polymathic, sneery, decorous, evelyn waugh, monkish, genial, neurasthenic, plummy, visaged, florid, max beerbohm, epigrammatic, splenetic, ineloquent, dullish, johnsonian, puppyish, unostentatious, foppish, uptightness, dyspeptic, unassertive, unshowy, lytton strachey, scatty, jesuitical, pedantic, easeful, wordsworthian, lincolnesque, sesquipedalian, avuncular, sepulchral, adenoidal, sardonic, sententious, minatory, courtly, wry, trembly, jocose, rheumy, querulous, undemonstrative, caddish, diffident, billet doux, rueful, dotty, pellucid, genteel, jovial, easygoing, effacing, ladylike, sedate, carefree, clownish, gentlemanly, languid, politest, quieter, secretive, snobbish, unromantic

academic, scholarly