- a variation of personality conflict.
personality clash
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He said the disagreement about whether to allow the pursuit was not the result of a personality clash but was an “abuse of power.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2022
Or there might just be a personality clash.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2015
I don’t know if it was just hormones or a personality clash, but I was rude and resentful toward her, and the longer she stayed the worse it became.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2015
Still others saw a personality clash rather than a full-blown crisis, arguing at the same time that the U.S.-Israeli relationship was in need of rehabilitation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2014
For some obscure reason there was a "personality clash," the intelligence officer's term, between the pilot and the squadron commander.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
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