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ぞんざい: rude, careless, slovenly — Japanese vocabulary

ぞんざい means "rude, careless, slovenly". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

ぞんざい

Reading
ぞんざい · zonzai
Translation
rude, careless, slovenly
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
ぞんざいがぞんざいが

Example

その警官は私に対してかなりぞんざいだった。

そのけいかんはわたしにたいしてかなりぞんざいだった。

The policeman was rather abrupt with me.

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