brusque, schoolmarmish, lumpish, cloddish, overbearing, waspish, unstatesmanlike, pompous, sneery, boorish, insolent, goatish, haughty, captious, hemingwayesque, overcritical, egotistic, arrogant, uxorious, unmannered, snappish, overemotional, pushy, thickheaded, unassertive, prissy, womanish, wittedness, egoistical, epicene, obnoxious, rageful, straightlaced, smirky, clubbable, uptightness, truculent, offish, obsequious, unwomanly, unchivalrous, unladylike, good naturedness, nabokovian, choleric, brutish, foulmouthed, disdainful, recriminatory, unintellectual, slobbish, dislikable, unmannerly, ineloquent, uncouth, tactless, irascible, snarly, gruff, rebarbative, ungentlemanly, clownlike, supercilious, incommunicative, unquotable, hypochondriacal, thuggish, condescending, daughterly, sarcastic, petulant, doltish, softhearted, sharklike, surly, unaffectionate, unctuous, sly, exhibitionistic, indecorous, quippy, onanistic, florid, loutish, indulgent, rude, glib, unamusing, moonfaced, sanctimonious, pantomimic, brattish, graceless, bossy, schoolmasterly, unwonted, quavery, sluttish, brash, mealymouthed, recriminating, unexpressive, affable, bland, curt, nonchalant, suave, absentminded, debonair, demure, diffident, exaggeratedly, gentlemanly, insouciant, ladylike, noncommittal, phlegmatic, polite, resigned

brusque, curt, discourteous, short