いかめしい
- stern; grave; austere; imposing; dignified; formidable; solemn; majesticword usually written using kana alone
- strict (e.g. security); severe; firm; rigid; rigorousword usually written using kana alone
adjective (keiyoushi)
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My Latin teacher used to look down sternly on me over the rim of her glasses, but now I know it only had to do with the fact that she was wearing reading glasses and that she will have found it a nuisance taking them off all the time, so what looked like contempt towards us students might well and truly have been kindness.