- argue illogically in glossing over faults -- cover up faults with flowery words
- 强辩: defend oneself by sophistry
- 饰: decorate; adorn; dress up; p ...
- 非: mistake; wrong; errors
- 拒谏饰非: reject [refuse] representations and gloss over errors; reject good advice and gloss over faults
- 文过饰非: smooth over a fault; conceal mistakes and complete the undoing; cover up one's errors [mistakes]; explain away one's shortcomings and mistakes; gild over one's vices; gloss over one's mistake [fault]; paper over one's errors; pretend to have done nothing wrong; slur over and excuse one's faults; varnish errors; whitewash faults 要知过必改, 不要文过饰非。 correct your mistake the moment you realize it and don't try to gloss over your mistake
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