メイモク – Vocabulary details

メイモク

Adjective (の)

Noun

1. name; title; appellation; (something) nominal

こう言いっては何なんですが、彼かれは名めい目もくだけの上じょう司しに近ちかいでしょう。I hate to say it, but he's pretty much a boss in name only.

2. (under the) pretext (of); pretense

休きゅう憩けいという名めい目もくで、外そとに出でてきた。I went outside under the pretext of taking a break.

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counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun

order; item (of a budget revision, etc.); counter for played stones; counter for surrounded points

nominal; in name (only)

nominal; in name only; only by terminology

nominalism; terminism

大たい層そうなめいもくメイモクが一いっ瞬しゅんで吹ふっ飛とんだ。

The grand pretext vanished in an instant.

視し察さつをめいもくメイモクに、一いっ体たいいくら使つかっているのかしら。

I wonder how much they're spending under the pretext of an inspection.

休きゅう憩けいというめいもくメイモクで、外そとに出でてきた。

I went outside under the pretext of taking a break.

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