拙せつ悪あく

na-adjective, noun

poor quality; bad; inferior

Describes something of low quality, poor taste, or an unfavorable situation. The word is rare and somewhat literary; in modern Japanese, まずい or 質が悪い are more common.

• この料りょう理りは拙せつ悪あくで、とても食たべられたものではない。

  This dish is of such poor quality that it is hardly edible.

• 彼かれの置おかれた状じょう況きょうは拙せつ悪あくとしか言いいようがない。

  His situation can only be described as dire.