- malicious; ill-tempered; unkind
adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi); noun (common) (futsuumeishi); noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru
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Isn't my boyfriend terrible? He always takes me to see horror movies, even though he knows I don't like them. I hate it.
Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.
A jealous person gets a feeling of contentment by behaving like a dog in the manger even with his friends.