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xảo ngôn

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smooth talk
Noun
smooth talk

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Meaning
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Sense 1 Noun
smooth talk Discourse, Logic, Comparison & ModalityTheme Problems, Opinions & EvaluationTheme

Speech that is clever and pleasant but intended to deceive or flatter.

vi Đừng để những lời xảo ngôn của hắn ta đánh lừa bạn.

en Don't let his smooth talk deceive you.

Parts
xảo / ngôn / Sino-Vietnamese; the character is 巧言 …
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OriginSino-Vietnamese; the character is 巧言

Chinese characters Source-aligned
Representative candidate
巧言
Candidates by syllable
xảo 巧 ngôn 言
Bold marks the representative form aligned to a source as the spelling of the whole word. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. Source and confidence are shown in the heading above.
Use
tinh xảo / tiểu xảo / trí xảo / xảo diệu …
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