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際どい
読み方:きわどい
危険な、危うい、ぎりぎりの、すれすれの、などの意味の表現。「際疾い」と書く。

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きわどい【際どい】
1〔危険な〕risky

・きわどい賭けをする
 make a risky wager
・きわどいまねをする
 take a big chance/run a risk/attempt a chancy maneuver
2〔すれすれの〕close

・きわどい勝負
 a close game
・まさにきわどいところで助かった
 We had a very narrow escape.
・第1試合は際どいところで勝った
 They just barely won the first game.
・きわどいタイミングで間に合う
 make it 「just in the nick of time [by the skin of one's teeth]
・きわどい判定
 a questionable [debatable] decision
3〔卑猥ひわいな〕indecent

・きわどい話
 a highly suggestive story/〔わい談〕an indecent story
・きわどい冗談
 「an off-color [a raw] joke

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際どい
読み方:きわどい
際疾い とも書く
(1)
(形容詞)(かな表記が多い)
[対訳] risky; dangerous; hazardous; perilous; close (e.g. game); narrow (e.g. victory)
(2)
(形容詞)(かな表記が多い)
[対訳] suggestive; bordering on the obscene; risqué; delicate (e.g. question); questionable; shady
(3)
(形容詞)(古語)
[対訳] extreme; harsh; cruel

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