Herman Wouk: 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.

Recorded Herman Wouk said elsewhere, not written here

Complacent stupidity.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2012 source ↗

Others on this question

Ronnie O'Sullivan English snooker player

That they think they know it all.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗

Vick Hope British television and radio presenter

I don’t like it when people manipulate your words, which sometimes happens in the tabloids.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 August 2022 source ↗

Joseph Fiennes English actor

Picking their nose and eating it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

Bruno Tonioli Italian choreographer

Meanness and lying.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗

Monogamy, with the right lady. (Sheer luck.)

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 2012 source ↗

Taking myself seriously, even in a Vanity Fair quiz.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2012 source ↗

Anywhere with her, while she lived.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2012 source ↗

At age 97 and counting, guess.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2012 source ↗

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