ADJECTIVES

1. Canny: intelligent bright (perceptive) perspicacious keen keen-witted percipient

10. Snide: contemptuous cynical Deprecative disdainful disparaging insulting 11. snippy: sharp-tongued impertinent

derisive derisory

2. Villain: evildoer knave (Dishonest) miscreant (mis cre ant noun [ countable ] formal a bad person who causes trouble, hurts people etc. ) reprobate scoundrel(patife-canalha) 3. wicked- (mau-malvado-maldoso): awful black-hearted contemptible(despicable desprezvel) demoniac 4. cunning: sneaky artful guileful ( astucioso;manhoso) foxy (fox y adjective comparative foxier , superlative foxiest 1 informal sexually attractive : Regina is a truly foxy lady. 2 skillful at deceiving people SYN cunning : a foxy old man 3 like a FOX in appearance crafty craft y adjective comparative craftier , superlative craftiest good at getting what you want by planning what to do and secretly deceiving people SYN cunning , sly : a crafty criminal lawyer craftily adverb craftiness noun [ uncountable ]

12. posturer adj. Exaggerated Unnatural 13. Patsy: puppet cat's-paw dummy dupe figurehead

14. edgy: nervous worked up unsettled up 15. giber: taunter heckler jeerer

ill at ease uneasy all shook

16. pudgy: short fat shubby 17. clumsy: awkward ungainly unskillful 18. whiner: plaintive gawky uncoordinated unpracticed

sorrowful grumbler faultfinder grouch grump derisive

5. dabbler : amateur nonprofessional abecedarian layperson smatterer trifler tyro uninitiate

dilettante

19. sneerer: scornful contemptuous 20. bellyacher: plaintive whiner

6. ghastly: horrible macabre appalling morbid grisly deplorable atrocious 7. privy: camouflaged clandestine unavowed underground 8. Caviler: Quibbler Critisizer covert private unadmitted

9. Quibbler: Caviler Critisizer

21. clingy: emotionally attached 22. boaster: braggart showoff blowhard (colloquial) peacock swaggerer windbag (colloquial) gasbag (slang) 23. queenly: royal imperial kingly majestic princely regal 24. yapper: idle stupid talker breezy rakish crude buoyant carefree

31. surly: bad-tempered hotheaded choleric crabbed crabby hot-blooded hot-tempered grouchy grumpy ill-humored ill-tempered irritable short- tempered 32. gruff: dour austere harsh stern strict 33. groggy: unsteady dazed shaky 34. gingery: alive animated spirited jaunty perky 35. plastered: drunk wasted (colloquial) 36. burly: heavy tight dynamic energetic high-

25. airy: insouciant bouncy fancy-free jaunty nonchalant raffish 26. lanky: tall, thin, ungainly

tanked stinko dissipated

strong

muscular

husky

27. level-headed: judicious commonsensical sensible prudent rational reasonable sound

37. frantic: crazed frenzied uncontrolled wild 38. chunky: fat obese big blubbery blimpish (colloquial) 39. insolvent: broke (colloquial) destitute down-andout flat broke (colloquial) bad off (colloquial) impecunious impoverished 40. placid: calm serene still even impassive peaceful quiet

28. shortsighted: myopic

dim-sighted nearsighted

29. upbeat: optimistic bright bullish (colloquial) confident forward-looking hopeful positive rosy 30. wary: watchful alert aware guarded attentive careful awake

41. glum: somber grim long-faced lugubrious 42. amiable: affable convivial 43. fledgling: beginner novitiate 44. beady: small, round, shiny

melancholic morose mournful congenial cordial genial

53. plodder: trudger 54. slobberer: dribbler 55. fiddler: frauder

drudger

amicable approachable

apprentice freshman (US) initiate learner newcomer

cheater

56. con: frauder cheater swindler 57. kinky: corrupt depraved unnatural immoral indecent perverse twisted unwholesome warped 58. shrewd: insightful savvy (US) astute intuitive perceptive percipient perspicacious prehensile

45. hapless: unlucky unblessed ill-favored damned down on one's luck (colloquial) jinxed

cursed

46. indomitable: unassailable impregnable indestructible Invulnerable strong tough 47. skittish: lively restlessly nervous restive

invincible inviolable bashful. unflagging

mercurial fickle shy

59. shrewish: ill-tempered nagging 60. lewd: lustful obscene indecent

48. Faithful: loyal true-blue constant dedicated steadfast true attached

49. philander: womanizer (colloquial) Casanova Don Juan Lothario lady-killer (slang) lounge lizard (slang) masher (slang) skirt chaser (slang) wolf (slang) 50. miser: greedy avaricious freeloader (US, colloquial) hanger-on dab hand (British, colloquial)

61. squeamish: prudish hypersensitive priggish puritanical qualmish sensitive 62. coquette: seductress charmer enchantress femme fatale flirt hussy minx sexpot (slang) siren temptress vamp (colloquial) 63. stylish: chic fashionable modish sharp (slang) voguish 64. garish: flamboyant flashy (colloquial) gaudy loud lurid meretricious ostentatious playgirl

51. scrounger: parasite bloodsucker (colloquial) leech beggar sponger (colloquial) 52. prodigy: expert ace (colloquial) genius maven (US) adept

authority

65. kitschy: sentimental vulgar off-color 66. off-colour: sickly anemic ashen bloodless deathly green pale pasty peaky (colloquial) sallow 67. peevish: querulous whiny sniveling puling 68. intrepid: courageous bold adventuresome brave dauntless fearless lionhearted plucky unafraid undaunted unflinching 69. steadfast: loyal true-blue constant faithful dedicated true attached unflagging 70. quisling: traitor collaborator fifth columnist betrayer peaked

71. quirk: eccentric idiosyncratic odd peculiar singular 72. witty: laughable amusing entertaining comical droll farcical foolish funny humorous risible 73. obnoxious: indecorous bad-mannered boorish coarse crude discourteous gauche ill-bred ill-mannered impolite improper indelicate inelegant rude uncivil nmannerly crass 74. withdrawn: aloof remote detached removed reserved unsociable 75. gaudy: garish flamboyant flashy (colloquial) loud lurid meretricious ostentatious 76. showy: exhibitionistic flashy theatrical unrestrained flamboyant 77. abstinent: ascetic continent dry (US) moderate on the wagon (colloquial) puritanical self-denying sober teetotal temperate abstemious