阳奉阴违 yángfèngyīnwéi to feign compliance Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 阳奉阴违 陽奉陰違 yángfèngyīnwéi to feign compliance To pretend to obey in public while secretly opposing or violating orders; to pay lip service to something while acting against it in private. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.434 per million Cross-References Referenced by 阳 yángAntonym 表里如一 biǎolǐrúyī Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
阳奉阴违 陽奉陰違 yángfèngyīnwéi to feign compliance To pretend to obey in public while secretly opposing or violating orders; to pay lip service to something while acting against it in private. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.434 per million Cross-References Referenced by 阳 yángAntonym 表里如一 biǎolǐrúyī Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)