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Elegiac expressing sorrow;mournful;plaintive
Eloquent persuasive, fluent and graceful in discourse; highly, vividly or movingly expressive of an emotion
Embittered to be filled with resentment; hostile; angry or resentful at having been treated unfairly(one can also embitter or fill with bitterness)
Erudite deeply learned; scholarly; intellectual (colloquially: "book smart")
Facetious playful; humorous; improbably silly
Fatalistic the doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and therefore unalterable by man; submitted to fate; resigned
Flippant marked by disrespectful levity / light hardness; sarcastic; not showing a serious or respectful attitude
Frivolous unworthy of serious attention; insignificant; trivial
Galling causing acute irritation, exasperation, discomfort or disgust, inflammatory
Giddy playfully silly; excited to the point of disorientation;joyfully elated
Glib superficial;insincere; slick or smooth talking; fluent often to the point of being insincere or deceitful
Iconoclastic characterized by attacks on cherished belief's or institutions; irreverent; heretical
Incredulous disbelieving; skeptical; expressing disbelief
Indifferent characterized by lack of partiality or bias; uninterested or lacking enthusiasm or concern; apathetic
Indignant righteously angry; angry at injustice; taking great offense to a moral basis
Inflammatory arousing strong emotion
insolent presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant;haughty disrespect
Introspective given to private thought; contemplative; reflective
Ironic when the understood meaning is the opposite of the stated meaning
Irreverent lacking in reverence; disrespectful;iconoclastic ; sacrilegious
Lackadaisical Lacking spirit or interest; languid; indifferent; apathetic
Lambasting to scold sharply; berate; giving a verbal beating or verbal thrashing
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