冠gun1冕min5堂tong4皇wong4

gun1 min5 tong4 wong4guān miǎn táng huáng

English

high-sounding
dignified
pompous (idiom)
to be stately in appearance

粵語 — Cantonese

形容表面上莊嚴體面、光明正大；通常都係背後有啲反差，先會用呢個講法

Examples

不管你有什么冠冕堂皇的理由，这样做是不对的。
No matter what grand and lofty reason you have, it's not right to do this.
Tatoeba · sadhen CC BY

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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