| A | B |
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| sardonic | characterized by bitter or scornful derision; moking, cynical, sneering |
| scornful | full of scorn, derisive, contemptuous |
| derisive | using, containing, or marked by harshly abusive censure |
| censure | strong or vehement expression of disapproval |
| scathing | bitterly severe, as a remark |
| wistful | characterized by melancholy, longing, yearning |
| wistful | characterized by melancholy, longing, yearning |
| pedantic | characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules |
| idyllic | suitable for or suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple or rustice |
| idyll | a short poem or prose piece depicting a rural or pastoral scene, usually in idealized terms |
| pastoral | having the simplicity, charm serenity, or other charateristics generally attributed to rural areas |
| lugubrious | mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree |
| elegiac | of relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past |
| elegy | a mournful, melancholy or plaintive poem, (funeral song) |
| macabre | suggesting the horror of death and decay; gruesome |
| maudlin | effusively or tearfully sentimental |
| jingoistic | fanatically patriotic |
| churlish | boorish, rud |
| brusque | abrupt in manner, blunt, rough |
| arch | cunning crafty sly |
