Illustration: At a neighbourhood association buffet in a community room, a neatly dressed adult stretches across several guests to seize the last dessert. Their sleeve drags through a sauce dish, their jacket rides up, and one shoe has slipped off as they sprawl across the table edge.

JLPT N2i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

みっともない

mittomonai

shameful, unseemly

Example sentences

  1. 人前ひとまえでああいうみっともないことはするな。

    Don’t do such a shameful thing in public.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 恥はじを知しれ、みっともない。

    For shame!

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 自分じぶんの友達ともだちの悪口わるぐちを言いうなんてみっともないぞ。

    It’s small of you to speak ill of your friends.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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