Illustration: At a casual gathering in a Japanese apartment, a guest firmly declines another serving from a friend's sake bottle. The guest sits upright, meets the friend's eyes, and holds one palm clearly outward while sliding the empty sake cup back toward the bottle.

きっぱり

kippari

flatly, decisively

Example sentences

彼かれは私わたしを中なかに入いれるのをきっぱりと断ことわった。
He flatly refused to let me in.
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彼かれはきっぱりと断ことわった。
He gave a flat refusal.
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彼かれは煙草たばこをきっぱりとやめた。
He quit smoking cold turkey.
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