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美其名曰
měi​qí​míng​yuē

to call by the glorified name of

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
美其名曰 měi​qí​míng​yuē
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)