Illustration: At a small parcel collection counter, a worker slides a carefully wrapped package toward its owner with a careless one-handed shove while looking elsewhere. The parcel catches the counter edge, crushing a corner and loosening its ribbon.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

ぞんざい

zonzai

careless, rude

Example sentences

その警官けいかんは私わたしに対たいしてかなりぞんざいだった。
The policeman was rather abrupt with me.
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彼かれは引ひき出だしに物ものをぞんざいに押おし込こんだ。
He put his things carelessly in the drawer.
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店員てんいんのぞんざいな言葉遣ことばづかいが気きになった。
The store clerk’s rude way of speaking bothered me.
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