Illustration: In a Japanese family's sitting room, a visiting relative frowns while pressing two fingers into the fourth cushion offered for their chair. Three perfectly serviceable cushions already sit rejected in a neat pile beside them.

JLPT N1i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

気き難むずかしい

kimuzukashii

hard to please, fussy

Example sentences

トムって気難きむずかしいんだ。
Tom is hard to please.
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うちの社長しゃちょうは気難きむずかしい。
Our boss is hard to please.
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彼女かのじょは気難きむずかしいので、彼女かのじょとうまくやっていくのは我々われわれには難むずかしい。
It is difficult for us to get along with her, because she is hard to please.
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Kanji in 気難

気spirit; mindOnキ・ケKunいき・き
難difficult; impossibleOnナンKunかたい・むずかしい・むづかしい

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