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JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

横おう柄へい

ouhei

arrogant, haughty

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれの横柄おうへいな態度たいどは、私わたしの我慢がまんの限度げんどを超こえる。

    His haughty attitude exceeds the limit of my patience.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 彼かれの横柄おうへいな態度たいどにはもう我慢がまんならない。

    His arrogance is no longer tolerable.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 鉄道員てつどういんには士族しぞくが多おおかったため、乗客じょうきゃくへの態度たいどは横柄おうへいなものであったといわれる。

    It is said that railroad workers' attitude to passengers was arrogant because many of them were descendants of a samurai.

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

Kanji in 横柄

  • 横sideways; sideOnオウKunよこ
  • 柄design; patternOnヘイKunがら・え・つか

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