退廃的たいはいてき (taihaiteki)

decadent; degenerating

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退廃的 (たいはいてき, taihaiteki) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “decadent; degenerating”.

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Example sentences 9

かれ退廃たいはい てき音楽おんがくくのが きだ

He likes to listen to immoral music.

独自性の際立つ退廃的で妖艶な美人画で知られ、春画と好色本にも作品が多い。

He was renowned for decadent and voluptuous Bijinga (a type of Ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women) with strong originality and produced many works of Shunga (erotic arts) and Koshokubon (books on love).

しかし保守的な武士からは絵画的で華美な刃文で退廃的だと忌避されるものもあった。

However, conservative samurai avoided some of them because they thought those swords looked decadent with the picturesque and ornate Hamon (blade pattern).

人情本(にんじょうぼん)とは、江戸時代の戯作文芸の一種で、退廃的な恋愛や風俗を中心に描いたもの。

The ninjobon refers to a genre of gesaku literature (literary work of a playful, mocking, joking, silly or frivolous nature) written during the Edo period that mainly dealt with decadent love affairs and contemporary life of Edo (now Tokyo).