John Quincy Adams, n.Definitions

John Quincy Adams is a man whose disposition is as perverse and mulish as that of his father.

John Quincy Adams is the most doggedly and systematically repulsive of all the men to waste civilities upon.

John Quincy Adams is a man of reserved, cold, austere, and forbidding manners: my political adversaries say, a gloomy misanthropist, and my personal enemies, an unsocial savage.

John Quincy Adams is said to be a disgusting man to do business with: coarse, dirty, clownish in his address and stiff and abstracted in his opinions, which are drawn from books exclusively.