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This introduction highlights the idiom 「貪而無信」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Greedy and dishonest.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tān ér wú xìn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

taam1 yi4 mou4 seun3

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