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predictable, cliched, boring

syn- bromidic, fatuous, hackneyed, innocuous, insipid, jejune, musty, platitudinous, prosaic, quotidian, shopworn, threadbare, trite, vapid

pompous in speech and writing

syn-  magniloquent, fustian, rhetorical, orotund, high-flown

harsh, jarring noise

syn- din, discord

changing one's mind quickly and often

syn- mercurial, whimsical, willful

to punish or criticize harshly

syn- admonish, rebuke, reproach, tax, upbraid