9251701356 | sardonic | grimly mocking or cynical | 0 | |
9251703398 | scornful | feeling or expressing contempt or derision | 1 | |
9251707747 | satiric | sarcastic, critical, and mocking another's weaknesses | 2 | |
9251712624 | vituperative | bitter and abusive | 3 | |
9251718100 | scathing | witheringly scornful; severely critical | 4 | |
9251722918 | facetious | treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant | 5 | |
9251733074 | resigned | having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about | 6 | |
9251753470 | objective | not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts | 7 | |
9251744473 | wistful | having or showing a feeling of vague of regretful longing | 8 | |
9251749201 | pedantic | overly concerned with formal rules and trivial point of learning | 9 | |
9251762591 | didactic | intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive | 10 | |
9251777849 | disdainful | showing contempt for lack of respect | 11 | |
9251780940 | laudatory | expressing praise and commendation | 12 | |
9251785820 | idyllic | extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque | 13 | |
9251790102 | reverent | feeling or showing deep and solemn respect | 14 | |
9251796596 | irreverent | showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously | 15 | |
9251806520 | lugubrious | looking or sounding sad and dismal | 16 | |
9251811474 | elegiac | relating to or characteristic of an elegy that expresses similar mournfulness or sorrow | 17 | |
9251825973 | macabre | disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or death and injury | 18 | |
9251830251 | maudlin | self-pitying or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness | 19 | |
9251838989 | jingoistic | characterized by extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy | 20 | |
9251846613 | flippant | not showing a serious or respectful attitude | 21 | |
9251849414 | cynical | believing that people are motivated by self-interest, distrustful of human sincerity or integrity | 22 | |
9251854434 | indignant | feeling or showing anger in annoyance in what is perceived as unfair treatment | 23 |
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