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Negative traits, flaws

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Mean Girls in the Retirement Home

NYT

JAN. 17, 2015

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/
opinion/sunday/mean-girls-in-the-retirement-home.html 

flaws        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/
sports/football/jim-brown-death-legacy.html

flawed        USA

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/29/
652610008/a-top-impressionist-melissa-villase-
or-is-finding-her-own-voice-on-snl

lazy        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/
opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-wheres-the-empathy.html

gullible        USA

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/03/24

grouchy        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/
arts/television/george-gaynes-a-versatile-character-actor-dies-at-98.html

grumpy        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/29/
my-husband-is-perpetually-grumpy-and-im-desperate-for-some-light-relief-what-can-i-do

mean        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/
opinion/sunday/mean-girls-in-the-retirement-home.html

malice        USA

http://www.gocomics.com/jackohman/2017/01/19

weirdo        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/dec/22/
captain-beefheart-back-catalogue

selfish

arrogant        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/
movies/the-imitation-game-stars-benedict-cumberbatch.html

stubborn        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/
movies/the-imitation-game-stars-benedict-cumberbatch.html

reckless        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/21/
sunak-net-zero-reckless-dishonest

N's recklessness        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/
sunday-review/donald-trump-will-presidency-survive.html

coward

cowardice        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/
opinion/the-politics-of-cowardice.html

narcissism        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/10/
parents-who-praise-children-too-much-may-encourage-narcissism-says-study

narcissism        USA

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/03/09/
391874530/do-parents-nurture-narcissists-by-pouring-on-the-praise

narcissistic        USA

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/03/09/
391874530/do-parents-nurture-narcissists-by-pouring-on-the-praise

hypocrisy        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/
opinion/sunday/the-real-problem-with-hypocrisy.html

hypocritical

hypocrite        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/07/
pinochet.chile

lie        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/
opinion/sunday/good-lovers-lie.html

liar

dishonest

dishonesty        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/21/
sunak-net-zero-reckless-dishonest

disreputable        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/21/
sunak-net-zero-reckless-dishonest

disrespectul to N

cold, sadistic and merciless        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/26/
cold-sadistic-and-merciless-mohammed-emwazis-journey-to-jihad

temperamental        USA

https://www.npr.org/2016/08/05/
488666956/painting-trump-as-temperamental-
clinton-attempts-to-flip-the-gender-script

rude

rudeness        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/
magazine/the-age-of-rudeness.html

greedy        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/25/
greedy-tories-that-rings-a-steve-bell

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