粗暴

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 粗暴 is read as そぼう and means “violent” and “rough”.
• Basic usage: It describes a customer’s violent conduct and denies that another person is rough despite appearances.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• 粗暴な言動 / 粗暴な人ではない
  • It modifies conduct in 粗暴な言動 and appears in a negated personal judgment in 粗暴な人ではない.