Illustration: Guests in neat formal clothes quietly take their seats for a small piano recital in a Japanese community hall. One adult arrives wearing swimming goggles and an enormous inflatable duck ring over otherwise ordinary clothes.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ適てき切せつ

futekisetsu

inappropriate, unsuitable

Example sentences

  1. その単語たんごの訳やくは不適切ふてきせつだと私わたしは思おもいます。

    I think the translation of that word is unsuitable.

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  2. 彼かれは大声おおごえで笑わらったが、その振ふる舞まいは不適切ふてきせつに思おもえた。

    He laughed loudly, which behavior seemed inappropriate.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 先さきほど不適切ふてきせつな発言はつげんがありました事ことを深ふかくお詫わび致いたします。

    We’re deeply sorry for the inappropriate remark earlier.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 不適切

  • 不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
  • 適suitable; occasionalOnテキKunかなう
  • 切cutOnセツ・サイKunきる・きり・きれる

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