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"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"word": "惡趣味"
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"roman": "fùzuì de kuàigǎn",
"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"word": "负罪的快感"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"word": "怪癖"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"word": "俗人之樂"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "súrén zhī lè",
"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"word": "俗人之乐"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"word": "salainen pahe"
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"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"tags": [
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"word": "péché mignon"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
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"word": "heimliches Vergnügen"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"tags": [
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"word": "billiges Vergnügen"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"tags": [
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"word": "sündhafte Freude"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"tags": [
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
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"word": "sündhaftes Vergnügen"
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "gílti plézher",
"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "גילטי פלז׳ר"
},
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "akushumi",
"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"word": "悪趣味"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "grzeszna przyjemność"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "zabranjeno voće"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "slatki grijeh"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"word": "slatki greh"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "placer culpable"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo",
"tags": [
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"word": "guilty pleasure"
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