Human qualities – negative

Your score	Vocabulary	Example sentence / notes
0/0	to be arrogant	‘They were rather arrogant towards the suppliers.’
0/0	to be dishonest	‘The behaviour of one of the companies working on the project was somewhat dishonest.’
0/0	to be disrespectful	‘The customer complained because he thought the sales assistant had been disrespectful.’
0/0	to be impolite	‘It’s impolite to be late to a meeting.’
0/0	to be lazy	‘He should have repaired the coffee machine last week, but he’s too lazy.’
0/0	to be nasty	‘Some of the feedback comments we received were quite nasty.’
0/0	to be pessimistic	‘I’m quite pessimistic we’ll be able to sell the division this year. I think it’ll take another 18 months at least.’
0/0	to be rude	‘She was quite rude to the driver.’
0/0	to be unfriendly	‘The shop staff were really unfriendly. I’ll shop elsewhere next time.’
0/0	to be unhelpful	‘The sales assistant was particularly unhelpful. I won’t shop there again.’
0/0	to be unreliable	‘Their prices are low, but the installation team isn’t very reliable.’
0/0	to be untrustworthy	‘I don’t think he’s very trustworthy. I’d rather deliver the parcel myself.’

Your score

Vocabulary, Audio, Example sentence / notes

to be arrogant

‘They were rather arrogant towards the suppliers.’

to be dishonest

‘The behaviour of one of the companies working on the project was somewhat dishonest.’

to be disrespectful

‘The customer complained because he thought the sales assistant had been disrespectful.’

to be impolite

‘It’s impolite to be late to a meeting.’

to be lazy

‘He should have repaired the coffee machine last week, but he’s too lazy.’

to be nasty

‘Some of the feedback comments we received were quite nasty.’

to be pessimistic

‘I’m quite pessimistic we’ll be able to sell the division this year. I think it’ll take another 18 months at least.’

to be rude

‘She was quite rude to the driver.’

to be unfriendly

‘The shop staff were really unfriendly. I’ll shop elsewhere next time.’

to be unhelpful

‘The sales assistant was particularly unhelpful. I won’t shop there again.’

to be unreliable

‘Their prices are low, but the installation team isn’t very reliable.’

to be untrustworthy

‘I don’t think he’s very trustworthy. I’d rather deliver the parcel myself.’

Your score	Vocabulary	Example sentence / notes
0/0	arrogance	‘I think the root cause of the problem is arrogance on the part of the project management team.’
0/0	dishonesty	‘We lost the contract as a result of his dishonesty.’
0/0	disrespect	‘The lack of communication was interpreted as disrespect.’
0/0	laziness	‘They displayed a certain degree of laziness in their approach to the project.’
0/0	nastiness	‘The tone of the letter displayed a certain degree of nastiness.’
0/0	pessimism	‘There’s a lot of pessimism among the team at the moment.’
0/0	rudeness	‘I can’t stand rudeness.’