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stubborn | 1. | unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding. |
| 2. | stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent: an obdurate sinner. |
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Wickedness | 1. | vile, shameful, or base character; depravity. |
| 2. | a vile or depraved act. |
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terse, not talkative using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.
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brutual, aggressive | 1. | fierce; cruel; savagely brutal. |
| 2. | brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: his truculent criticism of her work. |
| 3. | aggressively hostile; belligerent. |
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dismal, mournful ex. lugubrious songs of lost love |
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timid 1.lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy 2.restrained or reserved in manner, conduct, etc. |
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unpridictable | 1. | changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature. |
| 2. | animated; lively; sprightly; quick-witted. |
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evil, wicked extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: ex. a nefarious plot |
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overly theatrical | 1. | of or pertaining to actors or acting. |
| 2. | deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech. |
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trickery, deceit | 1. | trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry: ex. He resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the job. |
| 2. | a quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade. |
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stupidly dull or silly | 1. | without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: ex. an insipid personality. |
| 2. | without sufficient taste to be pleasing, as food or drink; bland: ex. a rather insipid soup. |
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wooden of the nature of or resembling wood; woody. |
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sluggish, gloomy | 1. | sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn. |
| 2. | suffering from lead poisoning, as a person. |
| 3. | due to absorption of lead, as bodily disorders. |
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spirit of the times the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time. |
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high class, aristocratic –noun | 1. | a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat. |
| 2. | a person of very good background, education, and refinement. |
| 3. | a member of the original senatorial aristocracy in ancient Rome. |
| 4. | (under the later Roman and Byzantine empires) a title or dignity conferred by the emperor. |
| 5. | a member of a hereditary ruling class in certain medieval German, Swiss, and Italian free cities. |
–adjective | 6. | of high social rank or noble family; aristocratic. |
| 7. | befitting or characteristic of persons of very good background, education, and refinement: patrician tastes. |
| 8. | of or belonging to the patrician families of ancient Rome. |
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one who doesn't understand or appreciate aestheric matters reputed, supposed | 1. | (sometimes initial capital letter[image]) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes. |
| 2. | (initial capital letter[image]) a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia. |
–adjective | 3. | (sometimes initial capital letter[image]) lacking in or hostile to culture. |
| 4. | smugly commonplace or conventional. |
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reputed, supposed commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed: ex. the putative boss of the mob. |
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making a pleasant discovery by accident | 1. | come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries. |
| 2. | of, pertaining to, or suggesting serendipity. |
| 3. | good; beneficial; favorable: serendipitous weather for our vacation. |
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protest loudy and bitterly | 1. | to explode with a loud noise; detonate. |
| 2. | to issue denunciations or the like (usually fol. by against): The minister fulminated against legalized vice. |
| 4. | to issue or pronounce with vehement denunciation, condemnation, or the like. |
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stir up (trouble) | 1. | to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of: to foment trouble; to foment discontent. |
| 2. | to apply warm water or medicated liquid, ointments, etc., to (the surface of the body). |
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noisy, unruly | 1. | resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly. |
| 2. | noisy, clamorous, or boisterous: obstreperous children. |
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false, but attractively so | 1. | apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments. |
| 2. | pleasing to the eye but deceptive. |
| 3. | Obsolete. pleasing to the eye; fair. |
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done as a duty or routine but without much care or interest | 1. | performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy. |
| 2. | lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic: In his lectures he reveals himself to be merely a perfunctory speaker. |
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light and delicate | 1. | light, airy, or tenuous: an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination. |
| 2. | extremely delicate or refined: ethereal beauty. |
| 3. | heavenly or celestial: gone to his ethereal home. |
| 4. | of or pertaining to the upper regions of space. |
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hopeful, optimistic | 1. | cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations. |
| 2. | reddish; ruddy: a sanguine complexion. |
| 3. | (in old physiology) having blood as the predominating humor and consequently being ruddy-faced, cheerful, etc. |
| 6. | Heraldry. a reddish-purple tincture |
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with an airtight closure | 1. | made airtight by fusion or sealing. |
| 2. | not affected by outward influence or power; isolated. |
| 3. | (sometimes initial capital letter[image]) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of occult science, esp. alchemy. |
| 4. | (initial capital letter[image]) of or pertaining to Hermes Trismegistus or the writings ascribed to him |
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great injustice, wicked act characterized by injustice or wickedness; wicked; sinful. |
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not genuine or authentic | 1. | not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit. |
| 2. | Biology. (of two or more parts, plants, etc.) having a similar appearance but a different structure. |
| 3. | of illegitimate birth; bastard |
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particular, diligently careful | 1. | diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous. |
| 2. | persistently or carefully maintained: sedulous flattery. |
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diversified in color; of varied character | 1. | exhibiting great diversity of elements; heterogeneous: a motley crowd. |
| 2. | being of different colors combined; parti-colored: a motley flower border. |
| 3. | wearing a parti-colored garment: a motley fool. |
–noun | 4. | a combination of different colors. |
| 5. | a parti-colored effect. |
| 6. | the parti-colored garment of a jester. |
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masterful, but in a haughty, ditatorial way | 1. | leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command. |
| 2. | imperious or dictatorial. |
| 3. | positive or assertive in speech, tone, manner, etc. |
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health-giving favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air. |
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outrageously bad, very noticeable in a negative way | 1. | extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar. |
| 2. | Archaic. distinguished or eminent. |
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feel remorse or sorrow | 1. | to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities. |
| 2. | to wish that (something) had never been done, taken place, etc.: I rue the day he was born. |
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habitual, firmly established | 1. | settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler. |
| 2. | firmly established by long continuance, as a disease, habit, practice, feeling, etc.; chronic. |
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strongly against authority, tough to handle | 1. | resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory. |
| 2. | hard to deal with, manage, or operate. |
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to make imperfect, spoil, weaken the force of | 1. | to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil. |
| 2. | to impair or weaken the effectiveness of. |
| 3. | to debase; corrupt; pervert. |
| 4. | to make legally defective or invalid; invalidate: to vitiate a claim |
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procrastinating, putting something off that should be done right away | 1. | tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy. |
| 2. | intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision: a dilatory strategy. |
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amusing in an odd way 1.amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish. |
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holding firmly to an opinion or course of action | 1. | holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute. |
| 3. | extremely or objectionably persistent: a pertinacious salesman from whom I could not escape. |
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telling of lies or speaking evasively to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie. |
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secret dungeon w/entrance only by a trapdoor at the top a secret dungeon with an opening only in the ceiling, as in certain old castles. |
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misgiving or guilty feeling, a qualm | 1. | a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse. |
| 2. | any uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action. |
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censor words or scenes considered improper to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable. |
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secret meeting or convention | 1. | a private or secret meeting. |
| 2. | an assembly or gathering, esp. one that has special authority, power, or influence: a conclave of political leaders. |
| 3. | the assembly or meeting of the cardinals for the election of a pope. |
| 4. | the body of cardinals; the College of Cardinals. |
| 5. | the place in which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church meet in private for the election of a pope. |
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extremely hairy or bristly | 2. | Botany, Zoology. covered with long, rather stiff hairs. |
| 3. | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of hair. |
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having a very harmful effect | 1. | causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie. |
| 2. | deadly; fatal: a pernicious disease. |
| 3. | Obsolete. evil; wicked. |
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penetrating, strong and effective | 1. | incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting: trenchant wit. |
| 2. | vigorous; effective; energetic: a trenchant policy of political reform. |
| 3. | clearly or sharply defined; clear-cut; distinct. |
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overabundant, nauseatingly so | 1. | offensive to good taste, esp. as being excessive; overdone or gross: fulsome praise that embarrassed her deeply; fulsome décor. |
| 2. | disgusting; sickening; repulsive: a table heaped with fulsome mounds of greasy foods. |
| 3. | excessively or insincerely lavish: fulsome admiration. |
| 4. | encompassing all aspects; comprehensive: a fulsome survey of the political situation in Central America. |
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rude, cranky, ill-tempered moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, esp. over some trifling annoyance: a petulant toss of the head. |
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