Read Edit View history 美其名曰 měiqímíngyuē to call by the glorified name of Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 美其名曰 měiqímíngyuē to call by the glorified name of To give something a fine-sounding name despite it being inaccurate or dishonest, often used to whitewash or gloss over something negative. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.808 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
美其名曰 měiqímíngyuē to call by the glorified name of To give something a fine-sounding name despite it being inaccurate or dishonest, often used to whitewash or gloss over something negative. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.808 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)