舞文曲筆

Reading

Kana: ぶぶんきょくひつ

Romaji: bubunkyokuhitsu

Definition

noun

1

twisting of the truth in one's writing; playing with text to distort the truth

Kanji

舞

Readings: ブ、 ま.う、 -ま.う、 まい

Meanings: dance, flit, circle, wheel

文

Readings: ブン、 モン、 ふみ、 あや

Meanings: sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)

曲

Readings: キョク、 ま.がる、 ま.げる、 くま

Meanings: bend, music, melody, composition, pleasure, injustice, fault, curve, crooked, perverse, lean

筆

Readings: ヒツ、 ふで

Meanings: writing brush, writing, painting brush, handwriting