The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
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Carelessness of truth and others.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2026 source ↗
That they don’t give way quickly.
Not having the ability to say sorry when they’re wrong.
Two-faced phony-baloneys.
Selfishness—people who don’t care about others or their feelings and will do or say anything as long as they get what they want.
Surprise. Smiles. Courage. Safety.
Having somebody pull my judo trousers down at a competition when I was seven. And finding I wasn’t wearing any pants.
On X, I am regularly called a traitor, a fraud, a grifter, a weakling, a narcissist, a coward and a child molester.
A painting of a man who was killed on the Dutch coast in 1600.
The US election showed me that I had trapped myself in wishful thinking.
Moments of vanity, carelessness and unkindness.
Clive Myrie, Kellie Maloney, Charles Osgood, Keir Starmer, Bob Schieffer, Jon Sopel
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