superciliousness, prolixity, philistinism, facetiousness, pedant, journalese, grandiloquence, pithiness, didacticism, pompousness, flummery, triteness, erudition, indirectness, pomposity, reductionism, wordiness, sophistry, circumlocution, dilettantism, obtuseness, syllogisms, priggishness, nabokovian, tautologies, casuistry, lit crit, sarcasms, daftness, unworldliness, inexactitude, hairsplitting, crudities, literalism, fatuity, disingenuity, banality, triviality, pretentiousness, punctiliousness, attitudinizing, scatology, archaism, ingratiation, intellectualism, shavian, politesse, pathetic fallacy, sophistic, profundity, moralizing, snobbishness, inarticulateness, imposture, ineffectuality, archness, moralism, tendentiousness, glibness, solipsism, anglophilia, misanthropy, officiousness, misquotation, affectation, vagary, vacuousness, formalism, lugubriousness, sentimentalism, sophist, contrariness, biliousness, empiricism, loquacity, knowingness, scholasticism, malignity, wilfulness, factuality, roguery, sanctimony, presumptuousness, pretension, logical positivism, lexicography, hauteur, hyperboles, egocentricity, gerunds, illogic, nosiness, tu quoque, slovenliness, lexis, sophism, infelicities, incoherency, humbug, scruple, scansion, sneery, pedants, quibble, technicality, formality, conventionality, quibbles, quibbling, arrogance, technicalities, frivolity, punctilio, vanity, nicety, nonsense, ostentation, braggadocio, bravado, conventionalities

nonliterary, unliterary

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