also: わるぐせ
Refers to a persistent undesirable personal habit or moral failing.
His bad habit is that he can't help telling lies.
Smoking is a bad habit that harms your health.
Standard kanji spelling for the reading あくへき.
Rare reading; あくへき is the usual reading.
Compound of 悪 (あく, 'bad') and 癖 (へき, 'habit'). The reading わるぐせ is a less common kun'yomi-based variant.