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14 悪口 Verbal Abuse

Alternative Meanings

Saying Bad Things, Insult, Slander, Bad Mouth

Part of Speech

Noun

Reading

わるくち

  • Kyoko(Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi(Tokyo accent, male)

わるぐち

  • Kyoko(Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi(Tokyo accent, male)

あっこう

  • Kyoko(Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi(Tokyo accent, male)

Context Sentences

ビエトは意地悪なえみをうかべながらコウイチに大声で悪口を言い始めた。

Viet started shouting verbal abuse at Koichi with a malicious grin.

子どもの前では、おっとの悪口を言ったことがありません。

I've never bad mouthed my husband in front of my kids.

友達がみんなで私の悪口を言っているのを聞いちゃったんだよね。

I heard that all of my friends were saying bad things about me.

Meaning Explanation

Your bad mouth is saying bad things (as usual!). Everything that comes out of this bad mouth of yours is verbal abuse. One day someone's going to pop you in that bad mouth of yours.

Reading Explanation

The reading is the kun'yomi vocab readings for these two kanji, probably because this word is just two words put together into one (bad + mouth). Use your knowledge of the vocab words 悪い and 口 to learn the reading of this word.

Okay, I lied. You can also do わるぐち if you want. Sorry to say such bad things before.

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