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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An inability to be authentic.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗
People who judge other people's actions on their own thought process.
Ignorance and rudeness. Decency and a please and thank you cost nothing.
Three versions of the same trait: deceit, hypocrisy, and manipulativeness.
An inability to see the other side.
When I realised that I could get myself through anything that came my way.
All of the anxious thoughts that you are able to escape during the day that somehow know when you are lying down to relax.
Someone to clean my apartment.
Your lowest moment is temporary.
I’ve never really had a horrible job – I liked working at restaurants and being a nanny when I wasn’t acting.
Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.
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