Tone words 1-25

Abhorrent

disgusting; loathsome; repellent/ feeling repugnance or loathing.

Admonitory

 cautionary; warning;

Apathetic

feeling or showing little or no emotion/ uninterested; listless; passive; indifferent.

Acerbic

harsh or severe; caustic; vitriolic.

Audacious

fearlessly daring; bold; lacking restraint or circumspection; arrogantly insolent.

Baffled

puzzled; confounded; bewildered

Banal

repeating a worn-out convention or type; unaffecting and drearily predictable; trite; ordinary, boring, commonplace; mundane; pedestrian.

Bantering

good humored teasing; playful repartee; to tease or mock gently; badinage

Benevolent

characterized by benevolence; kindly; of or concerned with charity; altruistic; magnanimous.

Bombastic

pompous; grandiloquent (in regard to one’s speech)

Bucolic

of or characteristic of the countryside; peaceful or serene.

Ceremonial

of or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual; worthy of respect

Cynical

 scornful of the motives or virtue of others; skeptical; doubtful. scornful of the motives or virtue of others; skeptical; doubtful.

Clinical

pertaining to or connected with a clinic; pertaining to direct observation and treatment of patients; objective, detached.

Condescending

to come down voluntarily to the level of inferiors with whom one is dealing; deign; to deal with people in a patronizing manner; patronizing, belittling

Condemning

 expressing disapproval of; censuring; criticizing; to pronounce judgment against; to sentence; to doom

Contemptuous

to look down upon with haughtiness; scornful; disdainful;

Contentious

argumentative; quarrelsome; belligerent; bellicose; fractious.

Dogmatic

characterized by an authoritative, arrogant assertion of unproved or improvable principles.

Derisive

mocking; scoffing.

Desultory

moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected; rambling; occurring haphazardly; random.

Detatched

emotionally disconnected; similar to clinical or object in tone 

Didactic

intended to instruct; expository; morally instructive.

Disbelieving

to refuse to believe in; reject; incredulous

Disparaging

 to belittle; slight; to reduce in esteem or rank; condescending; patronizing.