<entry id="2212613" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1151680</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>悪びれる</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>悪怯れる</keb>
<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>わるびれる</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&v1;</pos>
<pos>&vi;</pos>
<s_inf>usu. with negative sentence</s_inf>
<gloss>to act timid</gloss>
<gloss>to show diffidence</gloss>
<gloss>to be hesitant</gloss>
<gloss>to appear embarrassed</gloss>
<gloss>to look ashamed</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2019-10-07 14:50:09" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_refs>大辞泉 + 大辞林
https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E6%82%AA%E3%81%B3%E3%82%8C%E3%82%8B</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -16,2 +16,3 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;to be timid&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;to be shy&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;{usu. in negative sentences} to act timid&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to feel remorse&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to show diffidence&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2019-10-07 14:54:08" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_diff>@@ -16 +16 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;{usu. in negative sentences} to act timid&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;{usu. in negative sentences} to act timid (about doing)&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2019-10-07 15:09:25" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Use [note="XXX"] to add notes</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -16 +16,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;{usu. in negative sentences} to act timid (about doing)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;s_inf&gt;usu. in negative sentences&lt;/s_inf&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to act timid (about doing)&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2019-10-07 20:17:27" stat="A">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>daij</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -16 +16 @@
-&lt;s_inf&gt;usu. in negative sentences&lt;/s_inf&gt;
+&lt;s_inf&gt;usu. with negative sentence&lt;/s_inf&gt;
@@ -18 +17,0 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;to feel remorse&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -19,0 +19,2 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;to feel ashamed&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to feel guilty&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-10-29 15:08:33" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_diff>@@ -20,0 +21,2 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;to be fearful&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to hesitate&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-10-29 23:08:46" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>No sign of that in my references. Resubmit with details.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -21 +20,0 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;to be fearful&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-10-29 23:54:51" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>daijs and nikk also have わろびれる as a reading for 悪怯れる, but it's probably not worth mentioning.
The example in daijs is from a 19th century novel (紅葉・金色夜叉)

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 悪びれる　 │ 15,718 │ 98.4% │
│ 悪怯れる　 │    169 │  1.1% │ 🡠 rK (daijr/s, koj)
│ わるびれる │     82 │  0.5% │
│ わろびれる │      0 │  0.0% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -8,0 +9 @@
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;rK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-10-30 20:30:09" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-11-02 12:39:41" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I think these glosses better convey the meaning.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daij, meikyo</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -18 +18 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;to act timid (about doing)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to act timid&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -20,3 +20,3 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;to feel ashamed&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;to feel guilty&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;to hesitate&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to be hesitant&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to appear embarrassed&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to look ashamed&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-11-02 21:14:17" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>