Possible Clues:

• Jaundiced
• Snarky, minus the humor
• Believing the worst of motives
• Mocking disorganised chaplaincy — helpers and priests initially made to leave
• Sceptical
• Not believing that there's a hundred bacvk in a lacy setting
• Likely to depreciate
• Hard-boiled egg's first dropped in clean, icy liquid
• Of a pessimistic disposition about the world
• Disinclined to believe the sincerity of others