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engage in malpractices for selfish ends

Time: 2022-01-31 08:36:17 Author: ChinaWiki.net

engage in malpractices for selfish ends

Malpractice, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin y í ngs ī w ǔ B ì, means to commit a crime by cheating for personal gain. It's from 20 years of witnessing.

Idiom explanation

Camp: seeking; Dance: playing; disadvantage: bad things. Playing with deception for self-interest and breaking the law.

The origin of Idioms

The fourteenth chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty: "although there are a lot of Nanyang warships, they can't manage them. They know nothing about malpractice, and there are business affairs in his mind."

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: corrupt and pervert the law, cheat for personal gain, engage in malpractice for personal gain, and pervert the law according to circumstances; Antonyms: integrity and honesty

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning.

engage in malpractices for selfish ends


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