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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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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...

PumpkinPie9 · 01/09/2016 17:05

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

PumpkinPie9 · 01/09/2016 17:09

(Second to last paragraph.)

Heratnumber7 · 01/09/2016 17:11

I know a Swastika. She goes by Swazzy.

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

Junoberry75 · 01/09/2016 22:50

Caress.

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.

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