Illustration: At a neighborhood potluck in a community room, one adult bends protectively over a serving platter while shoveling its remaining dumplings into a personal container hidden inside an open bag. Their own plate is already piled high.

Beyond N1i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

浅あさましい

asamashii

shameful, despicable

Example sentences

人ひとの失敗しっぱいを喜よろこぶなんて浅あさましい。
It’s shameful to take pleasure in someone else’s mistake.
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友達ともだちをだまして得とくをしようとするのは浅あさましい。
It’s despicable to try to profit by deceiving a friend.
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落おとし物ものを自分じぶんの物ものにするとは、浅あさましい行おこないだ。
Keeping something someone lost is a shameful thing to do.
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Kanji in 浅

浅shallow; superficialOnセンKunあさい

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