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文过饰非
wen​guo​shi​fei

to cover up one's faults

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
文过饰非 文過飾非 wen​guo​shi​fei
to cover up one's faults
(idiom) to gloss over one's mistakes; to whitewash or make excuses for one's errors

Frequency

Written text
0.163 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 饰非文过 shì​fēi​wén​guò

Referenced by

  • 饰非 shì​fēi

Sources

Frequency data
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