acerbic, droll, sneery, wry, sardonic, snide, rumbustious, brusk, supercilious, foppish, witty, florid, clubbable, plummy, schoolmasterly, jocular, cheeky, pompous, perceptive, splenetic, scatty, donnish, trenchant, erudite, rebarbative, sly, saturnine, haughty, sarky, insouciant, waggish, teacherly, scornful, imperious, sarcastic, querulous, dandyish, lugubrious, pithy, reproachful, pedantic, pugnacious, tetchy, prolix, bitchy, obsequious, snappish, barbed, caddish, genial, pernickety, schoolboyish, puppyish, sniffy, rueful, uxorious, disdainful, caustic, coquettish, tactless, brusque, curmudgeonly, undemonstrative, epicene, barrow boy, vulpine, acidulous, choleric, unforthcoming, urbane, maladroit, mordant, fastidious, flippant, unassertive, vituperative, recriminatory, incisive, sententious, glib, blithe, nancy mitford, ineloquent, impertinent, indiscreet, bumptious, snarky, diffident, bilious, falstaffian, quippy, hemingwayesque, chirpy, disobliging, unstatesmanlike, stoical, canny, ungentlemanly, puckish, lusty, redoubtable, epigrammatic, spiteful, peevish, censorious, ingratiating, flirtatious, truculent, effacing, natured, petulant, reticent, sassy, sprightly, vitriolic

bristly, ill-natured, prickly