The outward signs of a weak character are commonly believed to be bribery, corruption and exploitation but they do not bring out the true significance of the word. It belongs to the realm of ethics, which defines character in terms not easily intelligible to the common man. Here are a few definitions given by Western writers on ethics.

Morality is character. Character is that which is engraved. Character is really inwardness. Immorality as energy is also character, but to be neither moral nor immoral is merely ambiguous.(Soren Kierkegarard in The Present Age, page 15)

Character is the manifestation of Truth, and Truth is the conformation of Appearance to Reality. (Professor Whitehead in Adventures of Ideas, page 309)

Character is adopting