be profligate and devoid of principles

be profligate and devoid of principles

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Hu à ngy í NW ú D à o, which means that the monarch's life is corrupt, he often uses the treacherous and sycophantic, injures the loyal and good, and enslaves the common people. It comes from Duan Zhuozhuan, the book of Jin.

Idiom explanation

Immorality: immorality; immorality: morality.

The origin of Idioms

Duan Zhuozhuan in the book of Jin: "it can't belong to Ren Xianxiang. In women's words, it's immoral."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, attribute, or object. Example public immorality and immorality, abolishing the virtuous and losing the government, it is reasonable to kill. The 19th chapter of the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty and the second chapter of the chronicles of the states in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: "so I visited my neighbor's name and went home to tell my mother:" my father's direct admonition against the Lord is not an unforgivable crime. Today, the son of immorality, buy four beauty, to fill the palace. There is the daughter of Sida. She is very beautiful. If you buy more gold and silk and offer them to your father, you can save him from prison. "