- 当てつける
- あてつける【当てつける】⇒ あてこする¶ → 当てつけた¶その冗談は我々に当てつけたものだThe joke's on us.* * *あてつける【当てつける】show [do] sth to spite sb. [=あてこする]
●彼は僕に当てつけて英字新聞を読んでいたのだ. He was pointedly [was making a show of] reading an English-language newspaper to get at me.
・父は私に当てつけて弟ばかりほめていた. My father took it out on me by continually praising my brother.
・新婚の二人に当てつけられた. I found the newlyweds' behavior quite embarrassing.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.