diān​dǎo​shì​fēi

to confound right and wrong

  • created sense approved 颠倒是非/顛倒是非 · diān​dǎo​shì​fēi · to confound right and wrong — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    颠倒是非 / 顛倒是非

    diān​dǎo​shì​fēi

    to confound right and wrong

    (idiom) To distort the facts; to deliberately mislead by treating right as wrong and wrong as right.

    颠倒 (literal) → 颠倒/顛倒 · diān​dǎo · to invert 是非 (literal) → 是非 · shì​fēi · right and wrong

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    created sense