Meaning
煙たい (けむたい, kemutai) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “smoky, feeling awkward”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 5
子供にとってときに親は煙たい存在だ
To children, parents can sometimes be an overawing or awkward presence.
煙たい男だ.
He makes me feel awkward.
あの人は煙たい。
I feel awkward in his presence.
煙たくて、困っています。
I can't be around smoke.
将軍義輝の排除はもともと三好・松永の発案ですらなく、古くは阿波国守護細川持隆が最初に策した事であり、この事も示すように当初より実権と将軍専制に固執した義輝の存在は多くの幕府吏僚にとって煙たい存在であった。
Ousting of Shogun Yoshiteru, not even proposed by Miyoshi and Matsunaga initially, but was first masterminded by Mochitaka HOSOKAWA, governor of Awa Province, in a rather early year and, as this fact reveals, Yoshiteru who had insisted on real power and despotism by the Shogun, had been shunned by Bakufu bureaucrats since the beginning.