皮肉 – vocab dash

皮ひ肉にく

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Meanings

Noun

Na-adjective

No-adjective

1. irony; sarcasm; cynicism; satire

Na-adjective

No-adjective

Noun

2. unexpected; different from what one expected; not as one had planned

Noun

3. (only) surface; something superficial

Kanji used

Pitch accent

ひにく

Used in vocabulary

ironist; sarcastic person; sharp tongue; satirist

Noun

ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist

Expression

Examples16

私わたしはあなたの皮ひ肉にくな言こと葉ばは聞きき捨すてにはできません。

I resent your cynical remarks.

彼かれはいつも私わたしに皮ひ肉にくを言いう。

He always makes cynical remarks to me.

彼かの女じょは彼かれの皮ひ肉にくがわかるだろう。

She will perceive his irony.

彼かの女じょは少すこし皮ひ肉にくっぽく話はなした。

She spoke with a suggestion of sarcasm in her voice.

彼かれは少すこしばかり皮ひ肉にくっぽく話はなした。

He spoke with a suggestion of sarcasm in his voice.

皮ひ肉にくなことに戦せん争そうが数かず多おおくの有ゆう用ような発はつ明めいを生うみ出だした。

Ironically it is war that has brought a great many useful inventions into being.