Charles Osgood: What trait do you most dislike in other people?

The question

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.

Charles Osgood

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Their frankness and honesty.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 1999 source ↗

Others on this question

People who feed off of their misery. The whiners and complainers.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗

Greed, lack of empathy. Same thing.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 November 2025 source ↗

Not listening to me.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 March 2025 source ↗

The inability to listen.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Drinks on the deck at sunset.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 1999 source ↗

Being found out.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 1999 source ↗

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