Meaning
固苦しい (かたくるしい, katakurushii) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “formal; strict”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 8
固苦しい挨拶は抜きにしましょう
Let's cut out the formal greetings.
彼は様子が固苦しい
He has a stiff manner―a starchy manner.
あれは固苦しい人だ
He is a strait-laced person―a square-toed man―a precisian.
古武士のように固苦しい
He is as punctilious as an old-time samurai.
固苦しい口上は抜きにしよう
Let us do away with formal speeches!
彼は固苦しい支度をしている
He is precisely dressed.
彼はじっと立ち尽くし、狂わしい苦痛を堪え、手を固く震わせては握りしめていた。
He stood still, mad with suffering, his hands crisping and clutching.
せっかく苦労して築いてきた堺幕府の放棄にも等しい六郎（のちの晴元）の決断には、河内の畠山義堯（六郎の義兄弟）と共に断固反対したが、聞き容れてもらえなかったばかりか、かえって大きな溝をつくってしまう。
Together with Yoshitaka HATAKEYAMA (a brother-in-law of Rokuro) in Kawachi, Motonaga solidly opposed the decision of Rokuro (Harumoto) that equaled the abandonment of the Sakaikubo government they had spent a great deal of efforts to build, but instead of being accepted, Motonaga's opinion resulted in making a big gulf between him and Rokuro.