Illustration: At a neighborhood sports day on a Japanese school ground, three adults are beginning a three-legged race. Two eagerly surge forward, pulling the connecting ankle ties taut. Their hesitant teammate, who had been leaning backward with a doubtful expression, must suddenly hop along to stay upright.

JLPT N1expressionLevel estimated by Bebop

否いや応おうなしに

iyaou nashi ni

whether one likes it or not

Example sentences

転勤てんきんが決きまり、否応いやおうなしに引ひっ越こすことになった。
I was transferred and had to move whether I liked it or not.
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停電ていでんで、会議かいぎは否応いやおうなしに中断ちゅうだんされた。
The power outage forced the meeting to stop.
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子こどもが生うまれ、生活せいかつは否応いやおうなしに変かわった。
When our child was born, our lives inevitably changed.
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Kanji in 否応

否negate; noOnヒKunいな・いや
応answer; respondOnオウ・ヨウ・-ノウKunあたる・まさに・こたえる

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