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卑ひ怯きょう

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ひきょう

Meanings

cowardly, craven
unfair, mean, sneaky, dirty, dastardly

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Example sentences

そんな戦たたかい方かたは卑怯ひきょうだ。

That way of fighting is cowardly.

彼かれは卑怯ひきょうな手段しゅだんを使つかって試合しあいに勝かった。

He won the match by using underhanded tactics.

証拠しょうこもないのに人ひとを責せめるのは卑怯ひきょうではないか。

Isn't it cowardly to blame someone without any evidence?

陰かげで悪口わるくちを言いうなんて、本当ほんとうに卑怯ひきょうなやり方かただと思おもう。

I think saying bad things behind someone's back is a truly sneaky way of doing things.

弱よわい者ものを狙ねらって利益りえきを得えようとするのは、社会的しゃかいてきに卑怯ひきょうな行為こういとして強つよく非難ひなんされるべきだ。

Targeting the weak for personal gain is something that should be strongly condemned as a cowardly act in society.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)