美其名曰 měiqímíngyuē to call by the glorified name of Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 美其名曰 měiqímíngyuē to call by the glorified name of To give something a fine-sounding name despite it being inaccurate or dishonest, often used to whitewash or gloss over something negative. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.808 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
美其名曰 měiqímíngyuē to call by the glorified name of To give something a fine-sounding name despite it being inaccurate or dishonest, often used to whitewash or gloss over something negative. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.808 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)