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見苦しい (みぐるしい): unsightly, ugly — Japanese vocabulary

見苦しい is read みぐるしい and means "unsightly, ugly". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

見苦しい

Reading
みぐるしい · migurushii
Translation
unsightly, ugly
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
みぐるしいが

Example

ここだけの話だけれど、あの太った見苦しい魔女は減量中なのだ。

ここだけのはなしだけれど、あのふとったみぐるしいまじょはげんりょうちゅうなのだ。

Between ourselves, the fat ugly witch is on a diet.

Kanji in this word

  • 見 — see, look
  • 苦 — painful, bitter

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