genial, jovial, sarcastic, amiable, jokey, mirthful, affable, lighthearted, laconic, garrulous, droll, wry, puckish, loquacious, convivial, waspish, deadpan, pugnacious, chatty, avuncular, sardonic, acerbic, schoolmasterly, pompous, phlegmatic, teacherly, humorous, ebullient, taciturn, gregarious, schoolmarmish, glib, voluble, cheerful, easygoing, snappish, curt, bumptious, impish, flippant, sly, polite, irreverent, playful, brusque, combative, chirpy, supercilious, imperturbable, affectionate, verbose, sneery, brash, splenetic, folksy, talkative, sarky, snide, ribald, bombastic, congenial, witty, knockabout, gruff, unquotable, orotund, cheeky, monosyllabic, smirky, brusk, jaunty, cantankerous, clubbable, erudite, humourous, boyish, diffident, charming, smart aleck, gentlemanly, nonchalant, deprecating, humorless, snarky, condescending, schoolboyish, jest, quippy, larky, slangy, clownish, impertinent, amusing, weaselly, irascible, mischievous, comical, antic, flirtatious, barbed, jocose, professorial, facetious, ironical, disrespectful, boastful, deprecatory, cheek, committal, noncommittal, disparaging, patronising

jesting, jocosely, joking