ネガティブな
negative, pessimistic
→ Negative remarks exert an unhealthy, harmful influence on the people around.
見苦しい
unsightly, shameful, disgraceful, ugly
→ Quarreling in public is disgraceful and unsightly, so stop it at once.
ややこしい
complicated, tangled, perplexing, tricky
→ The paperwork procedures here are so perplexing and complicated that I keep making errors.
悲惨な
tragic, disastrous, wretched, miserable
→ I listened to the stories of people who suffered tragic fates during the war.
みすぼらしい
shabby, seedy, dilapidated, ragged
→ That restaurant has a rather shabby exterior, but the food is delicious.
乏しい
scarce, meager, lacking, poor in
→ Because funds are scarce, we have no choice but to scale down the plan.
貧弱な
poor, meager, feeble, puny, scanty
→ Infrastructure is so meager and poor in this area that daily life is inconvenient.
汚らわしい
filthy, abominable, disgraceful, repulsive
→ I will never condone or forgive such filthy and disgraceful conduct.
いやらしい(嫌らしい)
lewd, lascivious, indecent, creepy
→ Lewd, indecent jokes spoil the mood of the gathering completely.
卑しい
mean, vile, greedy, vulgar, low-minded
→ Gloating over someone else's misfortune proves you possess a truly vile heart.
希薄な
thin, dilute, tenuous, weak
→ In large cities, neighborhood relationships tend to become tenuous and distant.
月並みな
cliché, commonplace, trite, conventional
→ Rather than offering a trite, cliché greeting, I wish to convey words from the heart.
ぶっきらぼうな
curt, blunt, brusque, short-spoken
→ Though he may be blunt and curt in manner, he is actually a gentle person inside.
むっつり[と]する
taciturn, sullen, morose, tight-lipped
→ He has been sullen and tight-lipped since morning, refusing to speak to a soul.
不細工な
ugly, homely, clumsy, misshapen
→ The gift wrapping is clumsy and homely, but what lies inside is a marvelous present.
つれない(連れない)
cold, standoffish, aloof, unfeeling
→ I confessed my love to her, but received an utterly standoffish and cold reply.
しぼむ(萎む)
to wither, to shrivel, to deflate
→ Because I neglected to water them, the flowers withered and shriveled away.
あやふやな(危やふやな)
vague, ambiguous, uncertain, hazy
→ Relying on hazy and uncertain memories, I searched for the pathway.
生ぬるい
lukewarm, half-hearted, lenient, mild
→ With such half-hearted, lukewarm countermeasures, problems will never resolve.
無礼な
rude, insolent, disrespectful, impolite
→ You must never use insolent, disrespectful language toward your elders.
気取る
to put on airs, to pose, to be pretentious
→ Because she puts on pretentious airs when speaking, she is not very well-liked.
近寄りがたい
unapproachable, hard to approach, forbidding
→ She is so overwhelmingly beautiful that she radiates an unapproachable aura.
ちやほやする
to fawn on, to dote on, to pamper excessively
→ Pop idols take it for granted that they are pampered and adulated by fans.
窮屈な
tight, cramped, formal, stiff
→ This suit is so tight and stiff that wearing it all day is pure torture.
ヤバい
dangerous, risky, in deep trouble (slang: awesome)
→ I might miss the impending deadline. We're in deep trouble!
どん底
rock bottom, the absolute abyss
→ With my company going bankrupt, I experienced the absolute rock bottom of life.
