Illustration: At a low table in a Japanese apartment, an adult proudly lifts a glass dome from a velvet cushion, revealing one tiny ball of pocket lint. Their theatrical posture suggests a momentous unveiling, but the two friends opposite respond with flat expressions.

JLPT N2i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

くだらない

kudaranai

trivial, worthless

Example sentences

こんなくだらないことに多額たがくの金かねを支払しはらうとはけしからん。
It is criminal to pay so much money for such trifles.
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彼かれの意見いけんはくだらない。
His opinion is for the birds.
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私わたしはくだらない議論ぎろんに巻まき込こまれた。
I was involved in a petty argument.
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