Illustration: In a Japanese apartment’s entrance area, a proud amateur renovator has just bolted a deep key tray onto the front of a shoe-cabinet door. The tray now strikes the adjacent wall after the door opens only a few centimeters, trapping the shoes inside.

Beyond N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

改かい悪あく

kaiaku

to change for the worse

Example sentences

  1. どんどん改悪かいあくするなあ。

    They keep making it worse and worse.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

  2. 一番変いちばんかえちゃいけないとこを改悪かいあくしてしまったね。

    They’ve made the one part they really shouldn’t have changed worse.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

  3. 食品しょくひんのリニューアルは改悪かいあくしそうで嫌いやな予感よかんしかしない。

    I have a bad feeling that the revamped food product is going to be worse.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 改悪

  • 改reformation; changeOnカイKunあらためる・あらたまる
  • 悪bad; viceOnアク・オKunわるい・わる-・あし

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