嫌味 – Vocabulary details

嫌いや味み

Meanings

Adjective (な)

Noun

1. disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; offensiveness; tastelessness

味 is ateji

だが、その視し線せんには嫌いや味みが無ない。But there's nothing unpleasant about the way they look at you.

2. cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment; sarcastic comment

別べつに嫌いや味みのつもりではなかったんだ。I didn't mean it as a snide remark.

Alt. forms

Kanji used

嫌

dislike

味

flavor

Pitch accent

い

やみ

い

やみ

Used in: 1785

Composed of

嫌いや

disliking; not wanting; unpleasant; disagreeable; no!; quit it!

味み

-ness (as in "sweetness"); -th (as in "warmth"); place; alternating between ... and ...; sometimes ... and sometimes ...

Used in vocabulary (2 in total)

嫌いや味みを言いう

to make snide remarks; to put into bad mood

嫌いや味みをいう

to make snide remarks; to put into bad mood

Examples (6 in total)

嫌いや味みみたいに聞きこえますよ。

It sounds like a snide remark.

別べつに嫌いや味みのつもりではなかったんだ。

I didn't mean it as a snide remark.

だが、その視し線せんには嫌いや味みが無ない。

But there's nothing unpleasant about the way they look at you.

この文ぶん、嫌いや味みっぽいね。

This sentence has a sarcastic tone.

ちょっとした毒どくながら、明あかるいトーンで嫌いや味みがない。

There's a little bite to it, but the bright tone keeps it from being nasty.

しかも彼かれはこちらの嫌いや味みを含ふくめた言こと葉ばにも全まったく反はん応のうを返かえさない。

What's more, he doesn't react at all, even to my words laced with sarcasm.