美辞麗句 | Shirabe

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美辞麗句びじれいく

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Parts: 美辞麗句

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Meaning

English · JMdict

flowery words; rhetorical flourishes

そんなに美辞麗句びじれいくを並ならべられると、かえって嘘うそに聞きこえるよね。

When someone speaks with such rhetorical flourish, it starts to sound like they're lying.

Kanji

美ビ beauty, beautiful 辞ジ resign, word, term 麗レイ lovely, beautiful, graceful 句ク phrase, clause, sentence

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美辞麗句びじれいくを連つらねる

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Pitch accent

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Meaning

English · JMdict

to declaim; to string together all sorts of flowery words

Kanji

美ビ beauty, beautiful 辞ジ resign, word, term 麗レイ lovely, beautiful, graceful 句ク phrase, clause, sentence 連レン take along, lead, join

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地域ちいき参加さんかを呼よびかけてもしょせんは美辞麗句びじれいく、どのみち市役所しやくしょはやりたいことを勝手かってにやるに決きまっている。

The claim of community involvement is just window dressing; City Hall will do what it wants to anyhow.

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そんなに美辞麗句びじれいくを並ならべられると、かえって嘘うそに聞きこえるよね。

When someone speaks with such rhetorical flourish, it starts to sound like they're lying.

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