姑息养奸 gūxīyǎngjiān to tolerate evil is to nurture it Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 姑息养奸 姑息養奸 gūxīyǎngjiān to tolerate evil is to nurture it (idiom) excessive indulgence or appeasement will only encourage bad people or bad things; to spare the rod and spoil the child Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.152 per million Cross-References Antonym 严惩不贷 yánchéngbùdàiSynonym 养痈贻患 yǎngyōngyíhuàn Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
姑息养奸 姑息養奸 gūxīyǎngjiān to tolerate evil is to nurture it (idiom) excessive indulgence or appeasement will only encourage bad people or bad things; to spare the rod and spoil the child Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.152 per million Cross-References Antonym 严惩不贷 yánchéngbùdàiSynonym 养痈贻患 yǎngyōngyíhuàn Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
