There is one word in common parlance that has increasingly become like nails on a chalkboard to me: Values. “We value…”, “With people who share the same values…”, “Family values…”, “Christian values…” This word, “value”, is an incredibly wishy-washy word, as it can refer to just about anything. Some people value hard work, others value “work smarter not harder”, some value tolerance, others value the strict enforcement of their community’s norms. Yes, some things might be more worthy objects of value than others, but the word “value” tells us nothing about that worth any more than the word “like” tells us, if I were to say, “I like a hand-packed patty on the grill” and you were to say “I like a McDonald’s Big Mac, which burger is the proper object of appreciation. Using the word “value” says something about the one valuing, but nothing about the object of value. There is certainly something important about learning what others value, but to use the word in a cultural or political context (family values, American values, conservative values, Christian values, etc.) is to subjectivize something that ought not be.
I share your dislike of the word. It’s part of Nietzsche’s awful legacy.