Illustration: Under a shopping arcade during a sudden shower, a stallholder holds out one flimsy transparent umbrella and gestures insistently toward a huge stack of banknotes on a payment tray. A soaked customer stares at the money with raised eyebrows and an open, protesting palm.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

法ほう外がい

hougai

exorbitant, outrageous

Example sentences

日本にっぽんの地価ちかは法外ほうがいだ。
Land prices are sky-high in Japan.
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セールスマンはその品物しなものを法外ほうがいな値段ねだんで売うりつけた。
The salesman sold the article at an unreasonable price.
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それは全まったく法外ほうがいなことだ。
That’s quite absurd.
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Kanji in 法外

法method; lawOnホウ・ハッ・ホッKunのり
外outsideOnガイ・ゲKunそと・ほか・はずす

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