conciliatory, dismissive, insincere, condemnatory, platitudinous, unstatesmanlike, unhelpful, delphic, curt, bellicose, defeatist, disobliging, schoolmasterly, shamefaced, defiant, sarcastic, schoolmarmish, undiplomatic, obsequious, tactful, contemptuous, unsubtle, indecorous, infra dig, terse, scornful, unforthcoming, flippant, strident, reproachful, maladroit, sneery, brusk, effusive, tactless, reconciliatory, deprecating, apologetic, glib, highhanded, waspish, fulsome, jocular, peeved, graceless, circumspect, indiscrete, insipid, magnanimous, categoric, condescending, schoolboyish, uncouth, bemused, patronising, disdainful, intransigent, ungentlemanly, confrontational, statesmanlike, exasperated, captious, perturbed, farcical, arrogant, hackneyed, forceful, pompous, kidology, belligerant, daft, sombre, wimpish, cynical, waffly, snide, puerile, blunt, overhasty, uncomplimentary, loth, intimidatory, minatory, unfocussed, uncharitable, maidenly, consolatory, forthright, ex tempore, ungracious, unconvincing, churlish, lavatorial, childish, jokey, risible, sententious, diffident, shambolic, tutted, ineloquent, pernickety, deprecatory, noncommittal, propitiatory, committal, congratulatory, evasive, ingratiating, disrespectful, reassuring, accusatory, flirtatious

appeasing, conciliating, conciliative, placating, placative