Human qualities – negative

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Human qualities – negative

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Adjectives in use

Your score	Vocabulary	Translation	Example sentence / notes
0/0	to be arrogant	arrogant sein	‘They were rather arrogant towards the suppliers.’
0/0	to be dishonest	unehrlich sein	‘The behaviour of one of the companies working on the project was somewhat dishonest.’
0/0	to be disrespectful	respektlos sein	‘The customer complained because he thought the sales assistant had been disrespectful.’
0/0	to be impolite	unhöflich sein	‘It’s impolite to be late to a meeting.’
0/0	to be lazy	faul sein	‘He should have repaired the coffee machine last week, but he’s too lazy.’
0/0	to be nasty	böse sein	‘Some of the feedback comments we received were quite nasty.’
0/0	to be pessimistic	pessimistisch sein	‘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	unhöflich sein	‘She was quite rude to the driver.’
0/0	to be unfriendly	unfreundlich sein	‘The shop staff were really unfriendly. I’ll shop elsewhere next time.’
0/0	to be unhelpful	nicht hilfreich sein	‘The sales assistant was particularly unhelpful. I won’t shop there again.’
0/0	to be unreliable	unzuverlässig sein	‘Their prices are low, but the installation team isn’t very reliable.’
0/0	to be untrustworthy	nicht vertrauenswürdig sein	‘I don’t think he’s very trustworthy. I’d rather deliver the parcel myself.’

Your score

Vocabulary, Audio, Translation, Example sentence / notes

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to be arrogant

arrogant sein

‘They were rather arrogant towards the suppliers.’

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to be dishonest

unehrlich sein

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

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to be disrespectful

respektlos sein

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

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to be impolite

unhöflich sein

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

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to be lazy

faul sein

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

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to be nasty

böse sein

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

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to be pessimistic

pessimistisch sein

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

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to be rude

unhöflich sein

‘She was quite rude to the driver.’

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to be unfriendly

unfreundlich sein

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

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to be unhelpful

nicht hilfreich sein

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

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to be unreliable

unzuverlässig sein

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

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to be untrustworthy

nicht vertrauenswürdig sein

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

Nouns

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

Your score

Vocabulary, Audio, Translation, Example sentence / notes

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arrogance

Arroganz

‘I think the root cause of the problem is arrogance on the part of the project management team.’

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dishonesty

Unehrlichkeit

‘We lost the contract as a result of his dishonesty.’

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disrespect

Respektlosigkeit

‘The lack of communication was interpreted as disrespect.’

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laziness

Faulheit

‘They displayed a certain degree of laziness in their approach to the project.’

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nastiness

Bösartigkeit

‘The tone of the letter displayed a certain degree of nastiness.’

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pessimism

Pessimismus

‘There’s a lot of pessimism among the team at the moment.’

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rudeness

Unfreundlichkeit

‘I can’t stand rudeness.’

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