ludic, clever, idiosyncratic, pointillistic, larky, abstruse, obtuse, rebarbative, reductive, overfamiliar, scatty, overdetermined, daft, diagrammatic, wordy, pedantic, prolix, nonliterary, fiddly, beguiling, stagey, unimprovable, fantastical, sententious, presentational, pernickety, unpoetic, pretentious, eggheaded, unoriginal, undynamic, unaffecting, sneery, artful, prosaic, hackneyed, shavian, simplistic, artless, twee, esoteric, graspable, gnomic, banal, cutesy, rhythmless, inelegant, uninventive, discursive, plagiaristic, sarky, inventive, authorial, essayistic, formalistic, unshapely, unobvious, fanciful, androgenous, digressive, rubbishy, nabokovian, longwinded, stagy, chucklesome, indistinctive, dramaturgical, swiftian, uncontrived, aphoristic, lugubrious, imaginative, risible, melodramatic, ingenuous, formulaic, recondite, depthless, allusive, aleatory, ingenious, mawkish, teacherly, terza rima, unmusical, hacky, ropey, fuddled, grand guignol, meretricious, lunkheaded, clumsy, folktronica, metrical, maladroit, uninteresting, pulpier, florid, overloud, turgid, trite, epigrammatic, mischievous, elfish, capricious, impish, roguish, unsociable, whimsical, bodiless, boyish, flippant, gentler, inoffensive, perverse, unworldly, condescending, devilish, endearing, fickle, flighty, forgiving

crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricky, wily