Illustration: At a low table in a Japanese apartment, a host distributes rice crackers from a large, nearly full tin. Each guest receives two, but one guest has accidentally been given three. The host leans far across the table with narrow, calculating eyes to retrieve the extra cracker between two fingertips.

JLPT N1i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

せこい

sekoi

stingy, petty

Informal and mildly critical. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

トムって、せこいよ。
Tom is a cheapskate.
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飲のみ会かいで自分じぶんの分ぶんを払はらわないなんてせこいよ。
It’s cheap to refuse to pay your share at a get-together.
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ゲームでそんなせこい手てを使つかわないで。
Don’t use such a cheap trick in the game.
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