In a story, a hated character comes into the room. The narrator says
嫌{いや｝なところ見｛み｝られた The literal translation doesn't make much sense, as I can't
see what "bad place" she's talking about. I tried to research it, and it seems
to be some sort of colloquialism. My best guess is that it could translate to
"I just stepped into hell," or "this is like hell." Of course, I would like to
be certain. Thank you.
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the colloquial meaning of 嫌なところ見られた
ところ has [many abstract
meanings](http://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%A8%E3%81%93%E3%82%8D). This ところ is
not a physical place but a "situation" or "scene", or more concretely, what
the narrator was just doing. It's not a colloquialism. See: [A bunch of
questions about ところ](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/27541/5010)

This 嫌な ("bad") just refers to the fact that the narrator did not want the
other character to see what he was doing. The whole sentence roughly means "I
was seen at a bad time."
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