刁难 (刁難)
diāo nàn
Pinyin

Definition

刁难 (刁難)
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diāo nàn
  1. to be hard on sb
  2. to deliberately make things difficult

Character Decomposition

Related Words (6)

刁蛮
diāo mán
  1. 1 crafty and unruly
刁难
diāo nàn
  1. 1 to be hard on sb
  2. 2 to deliberately make things difficult
刁
Diāo
  1. 1 surname Diao
刁钻
diāo zuān
  1. 1 crafty
  2. 2 tricky
刁妇
diāo fù
  1. 1 shrew
  2. 2 virago

Idioms (1)

百般刁难
bǎi bān diāo nán
  1. 1 to put up innumerable obstacles
  2. 2 to create all kinds of difficulties (idiom)

Sample Sentences

遇到像老Q样擅长刁难揩油的，就不好好给你解释，让你把腿跑细，跑到心灰意冷，要么放弃办理，要么给他送礼；
yùdào xiàng lǎo Q yàng shàncháng diāonàn kāiyóu de ，jiù bù hǎohǎo gěi nǐ jiěshì ，ràng nǐ bǎ tuǐ pǎo xì ，pǎo dào xīnhuīyìlěng ，yàome fàngqì bànlǐ ，yàome gěi tā sònglǐ ；
such as meeting someone like Old Q, who wouldn't take time to explain things to you, who is good at making things difficult in order to take advantage of you. He lets you run your legs off, run until you are disappointed, until you either give up or give gifts to him;
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有些客户太难搞了，老把自己当上帝，刁难人。
yǒuxiē kèhù tài nángǎo le ，lǎo bǎ zìjǐ dāng shàngdì ，diāonàn rén 。
Some customers are just too difficult to handle. They always think they're god. It's not easy.
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