bilious, choleric, orotund, waspish, querulous, rebarbative, acerbic, ineloquent, prolix, bibulous, bumptious, acidulous, schoolmasterly, vituperative, hemingwayesque, rabelaisian, snappish, uxorious, falstaffian, jocular, irascible, lugubrious, scabrous, unquotable, lachrymose, onanistic, hysterical, dyspeptic, intemperate, affectless, mordant, oleaginous, shavian, droll, garrulous, misanthropic, digressive, rageful, latterday, reproachful, sneery, overdetermined, sardonic, max beerbohm, chucklesome, adenoidal, rhapsodic, demotic, brusk, disdainful, unhinged, apoplectic, peevish, existentialist philosophy, larky, donnish, unmannered, boorish, supercilious, johnsonian, oafish, neurasthenic, pompous, unctuous, cri de coeur, paranoiac, sycophantic, maladroit, parodic, bathetic, epistolary, truculent, unaffecting, cantankerous, bromidic, unexcitable, scatty, pedantic, fatuous, picaresque, phlegmatic, schoolmarmish, puerile, dunderheaded, toneless, nabokovian, doltish, jejune, caddish, clubbable, recriminatory, mulish, stentorian, disobliging, florid, rumbustious, priapic, plummy, trembly, rueful, insufferable, coruscating, censorious, cynical, irritable, melancholic, morose, desponding, revengeful, calmer, captious, despondent, distrustful, forgiving, spiteful, uncharitable, fretful

bristly, ill-natured, prickly