mò​xū​yǒu

groundless

莫须有 莫須有 mò​xū​yǒu
groundless
Groundless; baseless; fabricated. This term refers to trumped-up charges or false accusations, originally meaning "perhaps there is" or "it may be so," famously used by Qin Hui to frame Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.52 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.741 per million

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