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世知辛い；せち辛い [sK] ；世智辛い [sK]
【せちがらい】

1.	[adj-i] ▶ tough (world) ▶ hard (times) ▶ cold
2.	[adj-i] ▶ stingy ▶ miserly ▶ mercenary ▶ calculating ▶ scheming

Conjugations

History:

7.	A 2023-03-05 20:02:15 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
6.	A* 2023-03-05 19:44:24 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Google N-gram Corpus Counts ╭─ーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮ │ 世知辛い　 │ 81,368 │ 80.4% │ │ せち辛い　 │ 1,817 │ 1.8% │ │ 世智辛い　 │ 281 │ 0.3% │ - add (sankoku, obunsha) │ せちがらい │ 17,737 │ 17.5% │ ╰─ーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
	Diff:	@@ -8,0 +9,4 @@ +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>世智辛い</keb>
5.	A 2022-08-14 07:16:07 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Diff:	@@ -5,0 +6,4 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>せち辛い</keb> +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
4.	A 2022-07-21 05:55:51 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3.	A* 2022-07-20 16:13:38 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	chujiten: <計算高い> calculating; scheming 世知辛い 81368 80.6% せち辛い 1817 1.8% せちがらい 17737 17.6%
	Comments:	Not archaic. It's in meikyo, shinmeikai, chujiten and prog. HiddenForm せち辛い
	Diff:	@@ -12 +11,0 @@ -<gloss>hard (life)</gloss> @@ -13,0 +13,2 @@ +<gloss>hard (times)</gloss> +<gloss>cold</gloss> @@ -19,0 +21,2 @@ +<gloss>calculating</gloss> +<gloss>scheming</gloss>
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2.	A 2022-07-20 09:31:12 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Daijr/s.
	Comments:	I suspect the 2nd sense is archaic.
	Diff:	@@ -18,2 +18,2 @@ -<gloss>sly</gloss> -<gloss>cunning</gloss> +<gloss>miserly</gloss> +<gloss>mercenary</gloss>
1.	A* 2022-07-19 17:13:44
	Refs:	https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/世知辛い/
	Comments:	Feel free to edit and use better translations as you see fit
	Diff:	@@ -14,0 +15,6 @@ +<sense> +<pos>&adj-i;</pos> +<gloss>stingy</gloss> +<gloss>sly</gloss> +<gloss>cunning</gloss> +</sense>

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