癖

Meaning

癖 centers on a persistent, often unconscious personal tendency: a mannerism, habit, or trait that can be a minor fault, vice, or even a quirky kink.

• 癖くせ
  N3

  habit (usu. a bad one); tendency

• 性癖せいへき

  disposition; inclination; characteristic; idiosyncrasy; propensity

• 口癖くちぐせ
  N3

  pet saying; favorite phrase; stock phrase; catchphrase

• 潔癖けっぺき

  fastidiousness; love of cleanliness

• 難癖なんくせ

  fault

• 悪癖あくへき

  bad habit; vice

• 酒癖さけぐせ

  drinking habits; drunken behavior; drunken behaviour

• 癖毛くせげ

  kinky hair; frizzy hair; unruly hair; curly hair

• 手癖てくせ

  having sticky fingers; compulsive thievery

• 寝癖ねぐせ

  bed hair; hair disarranged during sleep

• 一癖ひとくせ

  trait; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy

• 嗜癖しへき

  addiction

• 女癖おんなぐせ

  philandering; itch for women

• 放浪癖ほうろうへき

  vagrant habits; vagabondism; wanderlust

• 癖にくせに

  and yet; though; when; in spite of

• その癖そのくせ

  and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that

• サボリ癖サボリぐせ

  habit of putting things off; truancy habit

• リセット癖リセットぐせ

  abruptly dissolving relationships (as if pressing the reset button in a game)

• 一癖も二癖もあるひとくせもふたくせもある

  to be hard to deal with; to be an eccentric; to be idiosyncratic

• 七癖ななくせ

  some habits; some eccentricities

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