Illustration: At a neighborhood rice shop, a merchant presses one finger secretly beneath the weighing pan, making a small portion of rice appear sufficient. His other hand reaches across the counter for the last coins in an elderly customer's open purse.

Beyond N1i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

あくどい

akudoi

unscrupulous, wicked

Example sentences

  1. あくどい事ことをするな。

    Don’t do wicked things.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. あくどい手段しゅだんを使つかう。

    They use dirty tricks.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. このため、時代劇じだいげきなどでは検校けんぎょうはあくどい金貸かねかし業者ぎょうしゃとして描えがかれていることがある。

    For this reason, period dramas sometimes portray kengyō as unscrupulous moneylenders.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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