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[Opinions] Kinsley
Kinsley -- Okay, good, bad or really bad? why?
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Really bad.
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"Sley" is unpleasant sound. Kinley would flow better, but it still sounds childlike.
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It's one of those names that's like biting tin foil.
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The "-nsley" part both disgusts and fascinates me. It's so gross I am kind of transfixed by it. I'm putting Kinsley on my Uncanny Valley name list. It belongs with names like Sloane and Greer.
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I also think -nsley sounds disgusting and am sort of fascinated by it. I don't know why I hate it so much. I don't hate the sound of Kinsey / Kenzie / Kingsley.I don't quite categorize it with Sloane and Greer; I can maybe see those as...abrupt/gray/bleak/austere?...but they don't seem screechy or make me cringe like Kinsley, Tinsley, Ainsley do.

This message was edited 1/30/2024, 12:41 PM

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Really dreadful and flimsy. Like tinsel.
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Reminds me of Alfred Kinsley too much.
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To me, it's inoffensive, but it's got so little personality it can't even really be bad. It's just one of those bland, Anglo-Saxon surname-types with a sort-of first-name sound that has suddenly gotten very fashionable as a first name.
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Don't really like it
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I think it's horrific. The sounds are ugly; I think of sexologist Alfred Kinsey; and it will inevitably be dated.
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Personally, I don't like it. I feel like it's too cutie and childish.
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