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Worst possible virtue/attribute names?

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PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 28/08/2016 16:41

I don't just mean a Verity who's a bit of a fibber, or a stingy Charity but what wouldn't work at all?

I'll start with:

Fecundity
Concord (people would think of aeroplanes)

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upaladderagain · 01/09/2016 23:13

Ooops - just realised you meant completely inappropriate names.
I guess Patience would be a huffy foot-tapper, Constance a flibberygibbet, Mercy a bully, Hope a gloom-monger etc etc.
Still like a lot of them though.

Junoberry75 · 01/09/2016 22:50

Caress.

upaladderagain · 01/09/2016 22:48

Patience / Patsy
Constance / Connie
Mercy
Hope
Faith
Prudence / Pru
Clemency
Charity
Temperance /Tempe, as in Kathy Reichs' novels
Felicity
Joy

Heratnumber7 · 01/09/2016 17:11

I know a Swastika. She goes by Swazzy.

PumpkinPie9 · 01/09/2016 17:09

(Second to last paragraph.)

PumpkinPie9 · 01/09/2016 17:05

There was a baby named Bully last year
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35810170

0pti0na1 · 01/09/2016 16:54

Sarcasm
Sloth
Celebrity
Irritability
Obscurity
Unreliability
Hypocrisy
Procrastination
Boredom

Persistence, Tenacity, Spontaneity, Loyalty and Diplomacy could work though Wink Domesticity could go one way or the other...

LauraMipsum · 01/09/2016 15:21

Maleficent. Would go nicely with all the little Elsas, Annas and Aryas Grin

StepAwayFromTheThesaurus · 31/08/2016 20:18

You can go by petal as a nickname.

StepAwayFromTheThesaurus · 31/08/2016 20:17

Petulance is a lovely name for a girl.

LunaLoveg00d · 31/08/2016 16:07

Punctuality

QueenLizIII · 31/08/2016 11:07

Repentance
Perseverance

QueenLizIII · 31/08/2016 10:52

Found a nice puritan name website:

TRIBULATION m English (Puritan)
Meaning, "a cause of great trouble or suffering." Sometimes given to 'bastard' children.

How delightful Shock

Ryooki · 31/08/2016 07:37

This reminded me of an episode of The Simpsons where Marge plays a pilgrim. Her name is 'Constance Prudence Chastity Good-Faith Obedience Temperance Sex-Wont'!

PattyPenguin · 30/08/2016 22:05

I've always thought choosing virtue names is asking for trouble. Call a baby Patience and you can guarantee that patient is the last thing the child / adult will turn out to be.

On that principle, perhaps it would be a good idea to call a child Defiance or Insolence. Or Pugnacity. Or Belligerence (a touch of the Norman French, there, perhaps?)

annandale · 29/08/2016 21:03

Submission
Ponder
Reflection
Fire-of-Pentecost

CancellyMcChequeface · 29/08/2016 20:57

Defiance is brilliant!

Bellicosity - if you like the nickname Bella but consider Isabella overused. Wink
Audacity
Insolence

Quodlibet · 29/08/2016 20:50

I once taught a very bored teenager called Epiphany, who spent most of her time staring sulkily into the middle distance. The likelihood of an original thought from her seemed very slim.

Stoneagemum · 29/08/2016 20:44

My Gran was Patience and she had an aunt or cousin Defiance.

tictactoad · 29/08/2016 20:40

Dust
Ashes
Freegift

Oakmaiden · 29/08/2016 20:39

You could have a Thrift?

Wafflenose · 29/08/2016 20:38

Reticence
Bossiness

I'm having fun! Also LMAO at Obedience!

Biscuitsneeded · 29/08/2016 20:36

Abstinence and Celibacy. Twins.

Wafflenose · 29/08/2016 20:34

Nobility
Prudishness
Argumentativeness

TequilaBlockingBird · 29/08/2016 20:03

Pulchritude