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見栄

show; display; pretensions; appearances; ostentation; vanity

N5Common wordNoun
Noun
showdisplaypretensionsappearancesostentationvanity
Noun
poseposture

Example Sentences

彼女は好奇心からというより見栄からテニスを始めた。

She has begun to play tennis not so much out of curiosity as out of vanity.

ビバリーヒルズのような高級住宅地で見栄を張り合うのは高くつく。

Keeping up with the Joneses is expensive in rich town like Beverly Hills.