Illustration: At the entrance of a small apartment building during rain, a resident examines the communal umbrella stand with growing disbelief. One open umbrella has several broken ribs, another has a large tear, and a third consists almost entirely of a bare frame.

JLPT N1pre-noun adjectivalLevel estimated by Bebop

ろくな

rokuna

decent, satisfactory

Usually used with a negative expression. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 麻薬まやくに手てを出だすとろくなことはない。

    If you mess with drugs, you’re asking for trouble.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 慌あわてるとろくなことないよ。

    Panicking will certainly not help.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 隣市りんしの枚方市ひらかたしが｢京阪間けいはんかんにろくな道無みちなし」と言いわれるのに対たいして、八幡市やわたしでは市街地しがいちにおいても大おおきな渋滞じゅうたいが発生はっせいすることは少すくない。

    While neighboring Hirakata is said to have “no decent roads between Kyoto and Osaka,” major traffic jams are rare even in Yawata’s urban areas.

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

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