Illustration: In a Japanese office break room, an employee deliberately lifts one end of a bench just as a coworker tries to sit, leaving the coworker awkwardly crouched and clutching their lunch tray. The prankster watches with a smug, narrow-eyed grin, plainly enjoying the embarrassment.

JLPT N1i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

いやらしい

iyarashii

unpleasant, nasty

Example sentences

実生活じっせいかつでもコセコセしたところがなく、どんな人ひとに対たいしても人間にんげんのいやらしい部分ぶぶん、卑屈ひくつな部分ぶぶんを見みせることがなかった。
He wasn’t fussy in his life off the stage; he neither displayed any distasteful characteristics, nor did he ever fawn over others.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
なんていやらしい男おとこでしょう。
What a nasty man he is!
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
彼女かのじょの厚化粧あつげしょうが嫌いやらしい。
Her thick makeup is disgusting.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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