Meaning
引け目 (ひけめ, hikeme) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “drawback; weakness”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 7
彼は他の社員たちに引け目を感じています
He feels inferior to the other employees.
彼女の前では引け目を感じる.
I feel small in her presence.
私なんか、親戚に会うと引け目を感じてしまうわ。
I feel not quite up to snuff when I meet my relatives.
「ニーナ！」男の声がうわずった。そこには愛情やら引け目やら憎しみやらがこもっていた。
"Nina!" said the man in a shrill, trembling voice that was full of love, insecurity, hatred, and more.
柔和な性格の人物で、容姿・教養すべてに優れた異母弟源氏に引け目を感じ、源氏と朧月夜の密通を知っても彼女を許し寵愛した。
He had a mild character, and felt small in the presence of Genji, who was superior to him in everything such as figure and education, so the Emperor Suzaku did not blame Oborozukiyo and loved her even after he knew the illicit intercourse between Genji and she.
吉良氏は「足利将軍家が滅んだ後は吉良氏が将軍職に」と定められた将軍継承権を有する家であったが、斯波氏も鎌倉時代以降、足利の名字を有し続け、幕府にて高い格式を誇り、引け目はないと主張したのである。
Although the Kira clan had the succession right stipulating that 'after the fall of the Ashikaga shogunal family, the Kira clan would assume the shogunate,' the Shiba clan insisted that it was in no way inferior, having retained the Ashikaga surname since the Kamakura period and boasting high status in the Bakufu.
源氏にのめりこんでいく御息所は、彼を独占したいと渇望しながらも、年上だという引け目や身分高い貴婦人であるという誇りから素直な態度を男に見せることができず、自分を傷つけまいと本心を押し殺してしまう。
Miyasudokoro became obsessed with Genji and longed to monopolize him, but due to her sense of inferiority as an older woman and her pride that she was a high-standing noblewoman, she could not show a frank attitude to him and she subdued her real feelings with the intention not to hurt herself.