卑ひ猥わい

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Meanings

Describes words, actions, content, or expressions that are sexually suggestive or crude. Often used in formal or critical contexts.

彼かれの卑ひ猥わいな冗じょう談だんに皆みなが引ひいていた。
Everyone was put off by his indecent joke.
その映えい画がには卑ひ猥わいなシーンが含ふくまれている。
That movie contains obscene scenes.

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Usage patterns

卑ひ猥わいな言こと葉ばobscene language
彼かれは酔ようと卑ひ猥わいな言こと葉ばを使つかう。
He uses obscene language when he's drunk.
卑ひ猥わいな冗じょう談だんa lewd joke
会かい議ぎ中ちゅうに卑ひ猥わいな冗じょう談だんを言いうのはやめてほしい。
I wish people would stop making lewd jokes during meetings.
卑ひ猥わいな目めつきa lecherous look
その男おとこは卑ひ猥わいな目めつきで彼かの女じょを見みた。
The man looked at her with a lecherous stare.
〈事こと〉を卑ひ猥わいに描かくto depict something in an obscene manner
その映えい画がは暴ぼう力りょくを卑ひ猥わいに描かいていると批ひ判はんされた。
The film was criticized for depicting violence in an obscene way.

Kanji

卑lowly, base, vile
猥obscene
鄙lowly, the country, the countryside

Related words

わいせつ
猥褻 is a more formal, often legal term for indecency (e.g., 猥褻物), while 卑猥 describes crude or vulgar sexual suggestiveness in everyday speech.
下げ品ひんN3
下品 covers vulgarity or poor taste generally, while 卑猥 specifically implies sexual indecency.
淫みだら
淫らな focuses on lewd or licentious behavior, especially sexual immorality, whereas 卑猥 more often describes crude words or expressions.
淫いん乱らん
卑猥 describes speech or gestures as vulgar or dirty, while 淫乱 describes a person's overall character or conduct as sexually depraved.

Opposites

上じょう品ひんN3
上品 means refined and elegant, the direct opposite of the crude, indecent quality described by 卑猥.

Written forms

卑ひ猥わいUsage93%
Standard kanji spelling.
卑ひわいUsage2%
Mixed kanji-kana spelling sometimes used when the second kanji is considered difficult or obscure.
ひわいUsage2%
ヒワイUsage2%
鄙ひ猥わいUsage1%
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used kanji form; the first character is uncommon.

Etymology

Compound of 卑 (vulgar, low) and 猥 (obscene, indecent). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the combination has long been used to describe lewd or crude matters.