Tone Definition
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| Admonitory | expressing admonition : WARNING
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| Ardent | intensely devoted, eager, or enthusiastic
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| Belittling | to speak of as unimportant; to disparage
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| Blasé | indifferent to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence or enjoyment
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| Bombastic | Pompous, Overblown
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| Boorish | unmannered; crude; insensitive
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| Candid | free from bias—open and honest
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| Coaxing | to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering
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| Condemnatory | to declare something reprehensible, wrong, or evil
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| Contemptuous | showing or expressing disdain; scornful
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| Contrite | showing sorrow and remorse for a sin, feeling guilty
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| Cordial | sincerely or deeply felt, polite
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| Cynical | bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic
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| Deprecatory | seeking to avert disapproval
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| Derisive | contemptuous; mocking
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| Didactic | designed or intended to teach
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| Disparaging | tending to belittle, put someone down
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| Docile | easily taught or submissive
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| Elated | to fill with joy or pride
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| Enraptured | to fill with delight
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| Exalted | rapturously excited
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| Facetious | amusing; attempting to be humorous
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| Fawning | to court favor by a cringing or flattering
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| Flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness
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| Guileless | Innocent, naive
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| Haughty | blatantly and disdainfully proud
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| Imperious | Overbearing, bossy, dictatorial
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| Imperturbable | extreme calm, unable to be bothered
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| Impetuous | Rash or impulsive behavior
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| Impudent | shameless or brazenly immodest
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| Incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true
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| Indignant | filled with or marked by anger
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| Indulgent | Giving in to something
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| Inert | having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance
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| Ingratiating | intended or adopted in order to gain favor
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| Insinuating | to suggest or hint slyly
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| Insolent | boldly rude or disrespectful
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| Languid | depression of spirits
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| Melancholy | tediously uniform or unvarying
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| Nonchalant | having an air of easy unconcern or indifference
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| Obliging | to be kindly accommodating
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| Obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a flattering attentiveness
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| Pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful
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| Peremptory | expressive of urgency or command, no option to refuse
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| Plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe
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| Pompous | Feeling of superiority over others
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| Querulous | habitually complaining
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| Rapturous | full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight
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| Satiric | Mocking, sarcastic, bitter humor
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| Sententious | excessive moralizing; self-righteous
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| Serene | calm and unruffled repose
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| Solemn | very serious, somber or sad
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| Solicitous | Overly pleasing (sales people)
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| Sprightly | marked by a happy lightness and vivacity
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| Stoic | one apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain
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| Uproarious | very funny
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| Vexed | Extremely angry
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| Monotonous | tediously uniform or unvarying
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