Negatives

Lars (United Kingdom)
Behaviors or attributes to avoid at all cost.
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  1. avarice
    reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
    the downfall for so many -- like an illness it dampens our ability to think clearly; bad decision are the consequence. Deterioration of society then becomes logical .
  2. bete noire
    a detested person or thing
    perception is reality - not much else that counts
  3. exasperate
    make furious
    an easy thing to do
  4. extemporaneous
    with little or no preparation or forethought
    the secret to failure
  5. flimsiness
    the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction
    what nowadays could equate to ever diminishing product quality (a form of fraud)
  6. non sequitur
    a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it
    a tool to deceive and steer attention away from the issues and our own faults and guilt.
  7. mediocrity
    ordinariness as a consequence of being average
    something I won't accept in me or in people who work with me
  8. prejudice
    a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
    creating problems where none exist...
  9. sordid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
    this word has a negative sound to it equal to its meaning
Created on Sun Sep 28 05:45:54 EDT 2008 (updated Fri Oct 03 16:57:54 EDT 2008)

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