The question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
An inability to see the other side.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2026 source ↗
Mental cruelty.
Never picking up the check.
I can’t bear people who lie.
Willful ignorance.
Did I behave in the right way?
Talking about the hardships of my mother’s life – she would not approve.
We watch over those we love.
Not joining the circus.
Safety or alarm, I can never decide which.
My parents died within four days of each other. I was engulfed as I ran from one bedside to another.
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