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Worst possible virtue/attribute names?

57 replies

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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Honeybee79 · 28/08/2016 21:59

Chastity
Prudence
Charity

StepAwayFromTheThesaurus · 28/08/2016 22:51

What about Belligerance and Apathy? They're lovely attribute names.

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 29/08/2016 00:44

You could have Antipathy too.

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CanadaMoose91 · 29/08/2016 04:26

I knew a Serendipity once. People called her "Dippy".

CancellyMcChequeface · 29/08/2016 13:59

Meekness
Humanity
Propriety
Vanity
Malevolence
Anarchy

itssquidstella · 29/08/2016 14:16

Punctiliousness
Magnanimity

TequilaBlockingBird · 29/08/2016 20:03

Pulchritude

Wafflenose · 29/08/2016 20:34

Nobility
Prudishness
Argumentativeness

Biscuitsneeded · 29/08/2016 20:36

Abstinence and Celibacy. Twins.

Wafflenose · 29/08/2016 20:38

Reticence
Bossiness

I'm having fun! Also LMAO at Obedience!

Oakmaiden · 29/08/2016 20:39

You could have a Thrift?

tictactoad · 29/08/2016 20:40

Dust
Ashes
Freegift

Stoneagemum · 29/08/2016 20:44

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

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.

CancellyMcChequeface · 29/08/2016 20:57

Defiance is brilliant!

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

annandale · 29/08/2016 21:03

Submission
Ponder
Reflection
Fire-of-Pentecost

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?)

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'!

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

QueenLizIII · 31/08/2016 11:07

Repentance
Perseverance

LunaLoveg00d · 31/08/2016 16:07

Punctuality

StepAwayFromTheThesaurus · 31/08/2016 20:17

Petulance is a lovely name for a girl.

StepAwayFromTheThesaurus · 31/08/2016 20:18

You can go by petal as a nickname.

LauraMipsum · 01/09/2016 15:21

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