美び辞じ

noun

flowery language; pretty words

Often used in the set phrase 美辞麗句 (びじれいく) meaning 'flowery rhetoric' or 'fine-sounding phrases'. As a standalone noun, it refers to elegant or ornate wording, sometimes with a nuance of being superficial.

• 彼かれのスピーチは美び辞じ麗れい句くに満みちていた。

  His speech was full of flowery rhetoric.

• 美び辞じを並ならべるだけでは人ひとの心こころは動うごかない。

  Just lining up pretty words won't move people's hearts.