罪大恶极
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 罪大惡極
Guilty of the gravest crimes; wicked in the extreme. A formal term of condemnation for murderers, war criminals and others whose offences are felt to be unforgivable.
Tội rất nặng, ác đến cùng cực. Lời lên án trang trọng dành cho những kẻ phạm tội tày trời như giết người, gây tội ác chiến tranh, không thể tha thứ.
Register: formal
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “tội đại ác cực” (toi-dai-ac-cuc). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
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Common questions
What does “罪大恶极” mean?
Guilty of the gravest crimes; wicked in the extreme. A formal term of condemnation for murderers, war criminals and others whose offences are felt to be unforgivable. Literally: crimes enormous, wickedness at its limit
Is “罪大恶极” formal or informal?
罪大恶极 is generally formal.