文饰

文飾
wénshì
  1. to polish a text
  2. rhetoric
  3. ornate language
  4. to use florid language to conceal errors
  5. to gloss over

CEDICT

  1. (literary) to deceive by an impressive appearance; to gloss over one's mistakes
  2. (literary) to polish a piece of writing
  3. to deceive by an impressive appearance; to gloss over one's mistakes
  4. to polish a piece of writing

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

1 文 wén
  1. language
  2. culture
  3. writing
  4. formal
  5. literary
  6. gentle
  7. (old) classifier for coins
  8. Kangxi radical 67
2 饰 shì
  1. decoration
  2. ornament
  3. to decorate
  4. to adorn
  5. to hide
  6. to conceal (a fault)
  7. excuse (to hide a fault)
  8. to play a role (in opera)
  9. to impersonate

Related entries

修辞 xiūcí rhetoric
演说家为了征服他的听众，不惜使用他在交流课上学到的修辞技巧。

To win his audience, the speaker resorted to using rhetorical techniques he learned from his communication courses.

Source: Tatoeba

修辞学 xiūcíxué rhetoric
词藻 cízǎo
  1. rhetoric
  2. flowery language
辞藻 cízǎo rhetoric
巧辩 qiǎobiàn
  1. to argue skillfully or plausibly
  2. rhetoric
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