Illustration: At a small pottery workshop critique, an instructor delivers a severe assessment of a student's elaborate vase. The instructor points directly at a conspicuous crack running through its base, mouth open mid-remark and expression sharply unsparing.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

痛つう烈れつ

tsuuretsu

scathing, severe

Often describes criticism or sarcasm. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 国体論こくたいろんと社会主義しゃかいしゅぎの野合やごうとして、北一輝きたいっきは痛烈つうれつな批判ひはんを加くわえている。

    Ikki KITA severely criticized the publication, saying that it was merely an illicit combination of the national policy theory and socialism.

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

  2. また朱熹も文人が思慮を欠いているとして痛烈に批判している。

    In addition, CHU His also strongly criticized that some Bunjin lacked prudence.

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

  3. 以降いこう、徂徠学そらいがくを痛烈つうれつに批判ひはんし続つづけて、衰退すいたいに導みちびく。

    Since then, Kinga’s severe criticism on the Sorai-gaku never stopped, which led the Sorai-gaku to declination.

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

Kanji in 痛烈

  • 痛pain; hurtOnツウKunいたい・いたむ・いたましい
  • 烈ardent; violentOnレツKunはげしい

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