character flaw

Example Sentences

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To me that is an enormous character flaw.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

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

During the unfortunate era when obesity was considered a character flaw, I didn’t understand why he would endanger his own health and risk dying, abandoning us.

From Slate • Oct. 4, 2023

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