Practice JLPTMeaning
横着 (おうちゃく, ouchaku) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “idle; impudent”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 6
横着な 奴だ
He is a lazy git.
横着しないで、教わった漢字を使いなさい。
Don't be lazy, use the kanji you've been taught.
横着しないで、 教わった 漢字を 使いなさい。
Don't be lazy, use the kanji you've been taught.
中江兆民は遺著「一年有半」の中で井上と白根専一を「真面目で横着ではなく、ずうずうしいところのない」と評して敵対者ながらその人物を高く評価している。
Chomin NAKAE highly appreciated the personalities of Inoue and Senichi SHIRANE in Nakae's posthumous book 'Ichinen yuhan' (A Year and a Half) as follows, 'They are serious, and they are not lazy or impudent', although Nakane was their opponent.
民党側にあった中江兆民は「一年有半」（1901年）の中で「余近時に於いて真面目なる人物、横着ならざる人物、ヅウヅウしからざる人物、ただ両人を見たり、曰く井上毅、曰く白根専一。
Chomin NAKAE, who was on the side of Minto party, wrote in his "Ichinenyuhan" (One and a Half Year Left) (1901) and lamented: 'I have always looked up to a person who is sincere, who is not lazy, who is not brash; that is to say, two people; Kowashi INOUE and Senichi Shirane.
これは余程御注意なさらないといけない」「高島嘉右衛門「占い」は「売らない」が東京だけで数十軒も看板を揚げて、ついに警視庁に召喚されたことは...（中略）...こうした横着者が市中にたくさんなるのである」と世の中を憂いだ記述がある（鉤括弧部は引用。
This must be carefully noted.' 'Several dozens of signboards in Kaemon TAKASHIMA, in Tokyo alone, indicating the pun, 'uranai' (fortune-telling) and 'uranai' (not selling) were put up, finally the police were summoned (omitted), such kind of pickers were many in the city' which was a pity (the part in quotation mark is a citation).