bad habit

This is not a minor character flaw or a bad habit that only emerges once or twice in his life.

The term "sanewashing" was coined to describe the bad habit of journalists who rewrite Trump's rambling nonsense into sentences that make sense, but for Vance, it's a full-time job.

They’ve had a bad habit of letting runs snowball throughout the season, but it appeared as though they had finally found an answer when a reverse layup from Rickea Jackson put the cap on an 8-0 run to start the final period, giving the Sparks back the lead for the first time since before halftime.

Beltway journalists have fallen into a bad habit of Trump's babbling monologues and rewriting Trump's babbling monologues so that they sound like coherent political speeches.

He added that the Home Office had got into a "bad habit of submitting initial budgets to parliament that it knows to be insufficient", expecting the Treasury to top this up from reserves later in the financial year - as happened last year, when its asylum budget was topped up by more than £4bn.