"Personality" - The Types We Know or Wish We Didn't

Radko C. (United States of America)
Word list inspired by a song by this name recorded by Lloyd Price in 1959.
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  1. antisocial
    shunning contact with others
  2. bigot
    a prejudiced person who is intolerant of differing opinions
  3. bipolar
    pertaining to or occurring in northern and southern extremes
  4. boor
    a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking refinement
  5. braggart
    a very boastful and talkative person
  6. bully
    a person who is habitually domineering or cruel to others
  7. curmudgeon
    an irascible, cantankerous person full of stubborn ideas
  8. dullard
    a person who is not very bright or interesting
  9. eccentric
    conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
  10. egomaniac
    a person who is abnormally self-absorbed and self-centered
  11. egotist
    a conceited and self-centered person
  12. epicure
    a person who takes great pleasure in fine food and drink
  13. flunky
    an underling of unquestioning obedience
  14. fraud
    a person who makes deceitful pretenses
  15. gadfly
    a persistently annoying person
  16. hedonist
    someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
  17. histrionic
    overly dramatic or emotional
  18. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  19. laggard
    someone who takes more time than necessary
  20. lout
    an awkward, foolish person
  21. malingerer
    someone shirking duty by feigning illness or incapacity
  22. martinet
    someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
  23. megalomaniac
    a pathological egotist
  24. misanthrope
    someone who dislikes people in general
  25. narcissist
    someone who is excessively self-centered
  26. oaf
    an awkward, foolish person
  27. obsessive
    characterized by an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation
  28. paranoid
    suffering from delusions of persecution or grandeur
  29. pedant
    a person who is preoccupied with rules and learning
  30. phony
    a person who professes beliefs that he or she does not hold
  31. poseur
    a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
  32. recreant
    a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause
  33. schizophrenic
    of a psychotic disorder marked by distortions of reality
  34. sluggard
    an idle slothful person
  35. snob
    a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
  36. sociopath
    a person with an antisocial personality disorder
  37. sybarite
    a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
  38. sycophant
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  39. toady
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  40. wastrel
    someone who squanders resources or time
  41. chauvinist
    a person with a prejudiced belief in his own superiority
Created on Thu Mar 24 13:29:45 EDT 2016 (updated Sat Mar 26 15:39:35 EDT 2016)

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