125 Examples of Difficult Behaviors

John Spacey, September 15, 2020 updated on November 20, 2022

Difficult behaviors are negative behaviors or behaviors that can be viewed as negative depending on the situation. For example, people have every right not to listen at all times to all things but there are situations where listening can be reasonably expected. The following are common difficult behaviors.

Apathy	Attention Seeking
Authoritarianism	Bad Winner / Bad Loser
Belligerence	Bitterness
Blaming	Boorish
Bossy	Bullying
Causing Others to Lose Face	Character Assassination
Cheating	Close-Mindedness
Coldness / Emotionally Distant	Combativeness
Complacency	Complaining
Condescension	Cowardliness
Cronyism	Cruel Wit
Cynicism	Defeatism
Defensiveness	Delusional Thinking
Dirty Looks / Negative Facial Expressions	Discourteous
Discrimination / Biases	Dishonesty
Disloyalty	Disrespectful
Dogmatic	Dramatizing
Dullness	Egotistical
Embarrassing Others	Exaggerating
False Praise	Gaslighting
Gossiping	Greed
Groupthink	Hateful
Hostility	Hubris
Humorless	Hypocritical
Ignorance	Ignoring Someone
Impatient	Inappropriate Directness / Honesty
Incompetence	Inconsiderate
Inflexibility	Ingratitude
Insincere	Insults
Intentional Helplessness	Intimidation
Judgmental	Know-it-all
Labeling Others	Lack of Accountability
Lack of Civility	Lack of Responsibility
Laughing At Someone's Expense	Lazy
Loud / Disruptive	Making Unfounded Accusations
Malice	Meanness
Mediocrity	Mocking
Narcissism	Neglect of Diligence
Neglect of Duty	Negligence
Not Listening	One-upmanship
Overly Direct	Overly Political
Overly Sensitive	Pandering
Paranoia	Passive Aggressive Behaviors
Patronizing Attitudes	Pettiness
Playing the Victim	Pompousness
Preachy	Pressuring Others / Peer Pressure
Profanity	Prudish
Pushing Someone's Buttons	Rudeness
Sabotage	Sanctimonious
Sarcasm	Schadenfreude
Self-Absorbed	Self-Importance
Self-Indulgence	Self-Pity
Self-Righteous	Sense Of Entitlement
Setting Up To Fail	Shamelessness
Sidelining	Silent Treatment
Smugness	Socially Excluding Others
Socially Undermining Others	Status Seeking
Sulking	Superficial Behavior
Sycophancy	Tactlessness
Thoughtlessness	Toxic Positivity
Undermining Others	Unprofessional
Unsympathetic	Vanity
Vengefulness

Pushing someone's buttons is the poor practice of intentionally drawing an emotional response from someone. For example, you know someone is sensitive about their appearance so you criticize how they look.

125 Examples of Difficult Behaviors

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