Illustration: Outside a Japanese apartment building, a home baker crouches beside a cake that has slipped from its carrier onto the pavement. The carefully piped decorations are flattened, and one strawberry has rolled against a drain.

JLPT N3na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

気きの毒どく

kinodoku

pitiful, unfortunate

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしたちはその老夫婦ろうふうふを気きの毒どくに思おもった。

    We were sorry for the old couple.

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  2. 全まったく気きの毒どくだ。

    What a pity!

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  3. 気きの毒どくですね。

    That’s too bad.

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Kanji in 気毒

  • 気spirit; mindOnキ・ケKunいき・き
  • 毒poison; virusOnドク

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