pythonesque, teacherly, mirthful, orotund, chucklesome, schoolmasterly, swiftian, rebarbative, larky, sneery, grand guignol, prankish, bathetic, dullish, lumpish, ludic, overfamiliar, grandiloquent, eggheaded, max beerbohm, pantomimic, literalized, opera buffa, dostoevskian, wordsworthian, overdetermined, shavian, schoolboyish, parodic, unimprovable, falstaffian, minatory, hifalutin, turvy, byronic, florid, droll, mot juste, mozartian, unpoetic, archetypally, schoolmarmish, dadaist, johnsonian, de trop, onanistic, jamesian, wordier, tragi, insouciant, rabelaisian, whiggish, unaffecting, demotic, zestily, danse macabre, jaunty, uncontrived, equanimous, somnambulistic, lunkheaded, fuddled, nabokovian, bawdiest, dourest, jokey, muzzy, epigrammatic, sophoclean, knockabout, bromidic, quippy, ineloquent, bibulous, jocular, pluperfect, punning, clownlike, patronising, soberer, frolicsome, exhortatory, lounge lizard, loopiest, hemingwayesque, oneiric, delphic, splendiferous, perspicuous, aphoristic, popish, jesuitical, praiseful, elizabethan age, fustian, nancy mitford, frowzy, moonstruck, billet doux, non sequitur, pointillistic, deadpan, facetious, flippant, irreverent, boastful, disrespectful, sarcastic, witty, humorous, humourous, lighthearted, ironical, laconic, whimsical, deprecating, insulting, playful, sardonic, condescending

humorous, humourous, jesting, jocular, joking