滥濫 in English

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 濫, the traditional character: 滥 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Small seal script
• Clerical script 東漢

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 书和朋友应该是宁缺毋滥。

  Books and friends should be few but good.

• 喀提林，你还会滥用我们的耐心多久呀？

  How long, O Catiline, will you abuse our patience?

• 国王滥用权力。

  The king abused his power.

• 大雨使河水泛滥。

  The rivers were flooded by the heavy rain.

• 我们只能滥用善良的。

  We can only abuse of things that are good.

• 用药和滥药只差一线。

  When it comes to drugs, there's a very fine line between use and abuse.

All example sentences with 滥