character flaw
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A botched escape or a wrong turn in a storm is the result of a miscalculated risk, not a character flaw.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The problems of private equity are well known: so well known, in fact, that working in the industry is now, in film, a character flaw.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2025
This is not a minor character flaw or a bad habit that only emerges once or twice in his life.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2024
The smallest character flaw will balloon into grounds for a divorce.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
For all its undoubted sincerity, Oppenheimer’s letter displayed a brazen disingenuousness, perhaps its author’s chief character flaw.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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