Illustration: After a community gathering, a volunteer drags a mop across the meeting room floor with one loose hand while looking away toward the open doorway. They have pushed crumbs and muddy water into a conspicuous crescent around a chair instead of cleaning beneath it.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

いい加か減げん

iikagen

halfhearted, vague

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれはいい加減かげんな返事へんじで言いい逃のがれた。

    He put me off with a vague answer.

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  2. いいかげんに仕事しごとをするな。

    Don’t do the job just any old way.

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  3. 物事ものごとをいいかげんにするな。

    Don’t do things by halves.

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Kanji in 加減

  • 加add; additionOnカKunくわえる・くわわる
  • 減dwindle; decreaseOnゲンKunへる・へらす

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