耸人听闻
Traditional form:
聳人聽聞
Pinyin (reading):
sǒngréntīngwén
Definitions:
- to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
Characters:
- 耸 - to excite, to urge; to raise; to shrug; lofty, towering
- 人 - man, person; people
- 听 - to hear, to listen; to understand; to obey
- 闻 - news; to hear, to smell; to make known
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