obtuseness, pusillanimity, dilettantism, ineffectuality, pedantry, prolixity, wordiness, philistinism, rudeness, disingenuity, casuistry, spitefulness, indirectness, unworldliness, timidity, presumptuousness, cussedness, ingratiation, slyness, superciliousness, bullheadedness, slovenliness, mendacity, pushiness, malignity, incuriosity, taciturnity, clumsiness, cynicism, bellicosity, sneery, arrogance, punctiliousness, naivete, haughtiness, inarticulateness, blitheness, naivety, spinelessness, tendentiousness, fecklessness, peevishness, obduracy, irascibility, imperiousness, condescension, pompousness, politesse, dissimulation, duplicity, immoderation, knavery, obstinacy, literalness, articulacy, gaucherie, vacuousness, diffidence, enfeebling, politeness, intractability, immobilism, circumlocution, unwisdom, uncooperativeness, truculence, secretiveness, unscrupulousness, journalese, frivolousness, ingratitude, prevarication, contrariness, russophobia, incoherence, obfuscation, dumbness, perceptiveness, charlatanry, snippiness, hypocrisy, infelicities, officiousness, sophistry, egocentricity, disingenuousness, presentism, embattlement, intellectuality, misquotation, irresolution, inexactitude, pomposity, concreteness, snobbism, perspicacity, deceitfulness, repressiveness, wilfulness, contumely, archaism, hauteur

unkindness