diāo​lài

slippery and rascally

  • created sense approved 刁赖/刁賴 · diāo​lài · slippery and rascally — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    刁赖 / 刁賴

    diāo​lài

    slippery and rascally

    crafty and knavish; to be slippery and untrustworthy, especially in refusing to fulfill obligations or repay debts

    刁 (literal) → 刁 · diāo · sly 赖 (literal) → 赖/賴 · lài · unreasonable

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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