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狡猾、狡黠 こうかつ koukatsu

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  1. adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)noun (common) (futsuumeishi) sly; cunning; crafty

Kanji in this word

cunning, sly, crafty
crafty

Example sentences

スフィンクスはテーベ市へ行く途中の何百人もの人を食べてしまっていた。というのはその人達が、こうかつなスフィンクスが出すなぞなぞに答えられなかったからであった。
sufinkusu ha teebe shi he iku tochuu no nanbyaku nin mo no hito wo tabe te shimaxtsu te i ta 。 to iu no ha sono hito tachi ga 、 kou ka tsuna sufinkusu ga dasu nazonazo ni kotae rare nakaxtsu ta kara de axtsu ta 。
The Sphinx had eaten hundreds of people on their way to the city of Thebes, because they could not answer the riddle the cunning Sphinx had asked them.
それだけ北朝鮮は(中国も)狡猾なんです。
sore dake kitachousen ha ( chuugoku mo ) koukatsu na n desu 。
That's just how cunning North Korea is (and China, too).

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