Word · 単語
美辞麗句
Reading びじれいく
flowery words
flowery words · rhetorical flourishes
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例文 · examples
そんなに美辞麗句を並べられると、かえって嘘に聞こえるよね。
When someone speaks with such rhetorical flourish, it starts to sound like they're lying.
地域参加を呼びかけてもしょせんは美辞麗句、どのみち市役所はやりたいことを勝手にやるに決まっている。
The claim of community involvement is just window dressing; City Hall will do what it wants to anyhow.