言行相悖
yán​xíng​xiāng​bèi

to not practice what one preaches

  • created sense approved 言行相悖 · yán​xíng​xiāng​bèi · to not practice what one preaches — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    言行相悖

    yán​xíng​xiāng​bèi

    to not practice what one preaches

    one's words and actions are contradictory; to say one thing and do another

    言行 (literal) → 言行 · yán​xíng · words and deeds 相悖 (literal) → 相悖 · xiāng​bèi · to run counter to

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

    created sense