Illustration: At a neighborhood recreation event, two adult competitors tug at the same small prize bag after a simple game. One kneels on the floor clutching the bag to their chest while the other pulls at its handle, both wearing exaggeratedly indignant expressions.

JLPT N1i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

見み苦ぐるしい

migurushii

unsightly, shameful

Example sentences

  1. 見苦みぐるしい言いい訳わけはよせよ。

    For heavens sake, stop your pathetic excuses!

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  2. 威勢いせいのいい方ほうについて、あちらに参まいり、こちらに参まいることは見苦みぐるしいことである。

    It is shameful to switch sides whenever one side seems to have the upper hand.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 日本にっぽんで1970年代ねんだいから1980年代頃ねんだいごろに給食きゅうしょくで、食器しょっきに顔かおを近ちかづけて見苦みぐるしい姿勢しせいのまま食事しょくじする姿すがたが社会問題しゃかいもんだいとしてマスメディアなどに取とり上あげられた。

    In Japan, the media reported it as a social problem when students ate school lunches with their faces close to their dishes, in an unsightly posture.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 見苦

  • 見see; lookOnケンKunみる・みえる・みせる
  • 苦suffering; trialOnクKunくるしい・くるしむ・くるしめる

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