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JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

嫌けん悪お

ken'o

to loathe, to feel disgust

Example sentences

  1. 嫌悪けんおの念ねんを抑おさえることができなかった。

    I couldn’t suppress my hatred.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. ひどい仕打しうちに彼かれの嫌悪けんお感かんは憎にくしみに変かわった。

    Bad treatment fanned his dislike to hate.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 演歌えんかは日本にっぽんの大衆たいしゅうに受うけ容いれられ、流行音楽りゅうこうおんがくの一ひとつの潮流ちょうりゅうを作つくり出だしてきたが、一方いっぽうでその独自どくじの音楽表現おんがくひょうげんに嫌悪けんおを示しめす者ものも少すくなくないのもまた事実じじつである。

    Enka has been accepted by the Japanese public and formed a trend of music, but it is also true that many people are disgusted by its musical expression.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 嫌悪

  • 嫌dislike; detestOnケン・ゲンKunきらう・きらい・いや
  • 悪bad; viceOnアク・オKunわるい・わる-・あし

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