- 苦々しい
- にがにがしい【苦々しい】〔非常に不愉快な〕 bitter; unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; abominable.
●苦々しい思い出 a bitter [an uncomfortable] memory
・苦々しい顔をして with a disgusted [an embittered] expression
・苦々しい思いで in discomfort; with loathing
・苦々しく思う feel unpleasant; be disgusted 《with [at]…》.
●収賄(しゅうわい)した国会議員が辞職していないのは苦々しい限りだ. It's a scandal [appalling] that the Diet member who took bribes has not resigned.
苦々しげ●苦々しげに bitterly; with disgust [displeasure]
・彼は苦々しげな顔をして何も言わなかった. He scowled in displeasure and said nothing.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.