steely, patrician, gruff, stoic, hangdog, taciturn, plainspoken, stolid, curmudgeonly, irascible, wry, cantankerous, blowsy, feisty, crusty, pugnacious, craggy, insouciant, hardbitten, laconic, genial, roguish, winsome, bristly, humorless, careworn, imperturbable, raffish, sardonic, dour, haughty, charming, unshowy, lugubrious, urbane, stony, plummy, dauntless, unsentimental, unbending, guileless, diffident, mulish, stoical, genteel, loamy, surly, cocksure, shrewish, melancholy, grit, doughty, beguiling, brassy, sphinxlike, priggish, straightlaced, earthy, tremulous, courtly, crotchety, lincolnesque, blithe, morose, implacable, headstrong, archetypal, brusque, grizzled, brusk, rueful, brash, indomitable, effete, stubbled, waspish, phlegmatic, caddish, saintly, soldierly, gritty, droll, honeyed, supercilious, unexcitable, unflashy, rawboned, wittedness, ornery, rakish, gentle, saturnine, coltish, sandpapery, prissy, drawling, teacherly, choleric, undemonstrative, hotheaded, hemingwayesque, snappish, booze, horny, sheer, abrasive, absorbent, adapting, adhering, adjusting, ado, aluminium, anodic, argillaceous, arguing, arid, asphalt, asses, automation, baking, bang, bauxite, chalky, fissured, glassy, slippery, pebbly, rubbly, friable, pitted, pocked, crumbly, siliceous, slaty, calcareous, limy, shaly, silicious

granitic, hardhearted, heartless, inflexible, obdurate, unyielding