Illustration: In a shared apartment kitchen, a young man has been caught eating his housemate's carefully prepared cake. Crumbs cover his shirt, the serving dish is nearly empty, and his housemate points directly at the evidence. A replacement convenience-store pudding he had offered sits rejected between them.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

開ひらき直なおる

hirakinaoru

to become defiant

Example sentences

開ひらき直なおられても困こまる。
Giving me an attitude won’t solve anything.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
彼かれは警官けいかんに対たいして急きゅうに開ひらき直なおった。
He suddenly took a defiant attitude toward the police officer.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
「相変あいかわらず、親おやバカね」「親おやバカの何なにが悪わるい？」「わぁ、開ひらき直なおっちゃった」
"You’re a doting parent as always, huh?" "What’s wrong with being a doting parent?" "Yikes, you got defensive."
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 開直

開open; unfoldOnカイKunひらく・ひらき・ひらける
直fix; repairOnチョク・ジキ・ジカKunただちに・なおす・なおる

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