character defect

"In my family, loyalty is a strength, not a character defect."

He took no pride in this character defect, but neither did it shame him.

"An obese, arrogant young man with a serious character defect.

They view every slip of the finger or memory lapse as a character defect.

From that possibility, he goes on to blame bad potty-training for all her character defects.

And you are also, despite some odious character defects, a..

"Ah, being positive may be a character defect of mine," Blake jokes.

Other researchers also found that prolonged institutionalization does not necessarily lead to emotional problems or character defects in all children.

He added that the real "character defect" was in a person who would allude to such faults but not explain them.

But perhaps it's a character defect instead, like being tone-deaf or refusing to eat food that isn't green.

But he has one major character defect.

'Look upon it as a character defect if you like.'

Mr. Lieber made it sound almost like a serious character defect.

It wasn't evidence of a character defect so much as it was the foundation that made him a good detective.

Compulsive gambling must be viewed as an illness, not as a character defect.

And she kept hoping part of it could be blamed on his age; almost any character defect was forgivable at nineteen.

At some point, you have to wonder when shamelessness crosses the line from character defect to psychopathology.

Excessive conversation had never been one of the man's character defects, not for as long as Al had known him.

These are character defects, symptoms of extreme narcissism, perhaps even borderline personality disorders.

If she suffers from certain character defects, it behooves us to leave them unmentioned."

Mother, who was an admirer of the Trapp family, considered this a character defect.

"It was one of his character defects," Belgarath added sourly.

I got character defects up the wazoo!

He called it a 'character defect,' by the way."

Torak was always ostentatious- some kind of character defect, I think."