wry, wistful, melancholy, sardonic, droll, mordant, blithe, lugubrious, poignant, doleful, morose, deadpan, mournful, elegiac, waspish, melancholic, glib, insouciant, lachrymose, sly, affectless, sorrowful, reproachful, jaunty, bathetic, trenchant, sarcastic, laconic, mirthful, trembly, poetic, plaintive, bemused, unsentimental, sidelong, shamefaced, sheepish, maudlin, schoolmasterly, leaden, dour, fatalistic, genial, pithy, jocular, jokey, dolorous, portentous, sprightly, guileless, splenetic, donnish, phlegmatic, shavian, quizzical, sneery, pained, hangdog, plangent, sullen, quavery, sombre, ruminative, dostoevskian, mawkish, amiable, artless, tragicomic, overfamiliar, hardbitten, flippant, overdetermined, beguiling, perceptive, orotund, smug, scornful, rebarbative, introspective, unsubtle, witty, grumbly, stoical, smirky, diffident, haughty, gleeful, forlorn, rhapsodic, revelatory, baleful, sarky, larky, winsome, heartfelt, acerbic, curt, admonitory, tremulous, teacherly, incantatory, sententious, regretful, amused, pleased, glum, deprecating, mocking, puzzled, contemptuous

contritely, remorsefully, ruefully

contrite, penitent, remorseful, repentant, sorry