顰蹙を買う (to incur displeasure)
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To earn people's frowns, to incur public displeasure. 顰蹙 (ひんしゅく) means 'frowning, knitting the brows' — a rare kanji compound. 買う here means 'to buy/earn' in the sense of attracting negative attention. A formal idiom for provoking social disapproval.
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