Illustration: In a compact apartment, a host proudly presents an elaborate lacquered platter of sweets to an impressed visitor seated at a low table. Behind the partly open kitchen door, the host’s other hand hastily pushes a cheap supermarket tray into an overflowing cupboard.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

見み栄え

mie

vanity, keeping up appearances

Example sentences

彼女かのじょは見栄みえを張はりたがる。
She is fond of display.
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彼女かのじょは見栄みえを張はっているだけだよ。
She’s just putting up a front.
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彼女かのじょは好奇心こうきしんからというより見栄みえからテニスを始はじめた。
She has begun to play tennis not so much out of curiosity as out of vanity.
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Kanji in 見栄

見see; lookOnケンKunみる・みえる・みせる
栄flourish; prosperityOnエイ・ヨウKunさかえる・はえ・え

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