niǔ​qū​zuò​zhí

to distort the facts

  • created sense approved 扭曲作直 · niǔ​qū​zuò​zhí · to distort the facts — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    扭曲作直

    niǔ​qū​zuò​zhí

    to distort the facts

    (idiom) to distort the facts or misrepresent the truth; to turn things upside down or twist right and wrong

    扭曲 (literal) → 扭曲 · niǔ​qū · to distort 作 (literal) → 作 · zuò · to regard as 直 (literal) → 直 · zhí · straight

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense