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| Unnecessarily expanded wording, inflated wording or sentence structure |
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| excessively thrifty or stingy in wording |
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| condescending; looking down on someone or thing |
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| suggestive of or expressing deep, melancholy thoughtfulness; wistful meditation |
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| charmingly bold; saucy; or jaunty |
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| spirited; lively; written in a sense of fun |
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| deeply affecting or touching the emotions, moving, affecting, disturbing |
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| self-important; excessively self-impressed |
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| Idealistic to an impratical degree; ridicously or excessively chivalric or romantic |
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| meditative; considering; thoughtful |
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| simply written; in the style of newspaper articles |
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| scornfully or bitterly sarcastic |
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| partial to a particular sect or group; biased to favor certain group |
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| modest; humble; poking fun at oneself |
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| resulting from feelings rather than reason or thought; overly emotional ; unfounded extreme emotion |
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| forced or pretended weeping; hypocritical show or feeling |
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| brilliant; lively; vivacious; animated |
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| curt. markedly short and adrupt, no extra words, blunt in manner or speech possibly to the point of harshness or rudeness |
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| meant or expressed facetiously or ironically |
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| refined, sophisticated, worldlywise; showing wordly cultivation, education and experience |
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| words or use of words in excess of those needed for clarity or precision |
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| mischevious; joking; merrymaking |
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| odd; fantastic in a light hearted way; appealing to the fancy |
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