[en] We investigate the charmless decays of excited P-wave charmonia χ${}_{c1}^{\mathrm{\prime <!--\; ???\; -->}}$ → VV and χ${}_{c2}^{\mathrm{\prime <!--\; ???\; -->}}$ → VP via intermediate charmed meson loops, where V and P denote the light vector and pseudoscalar mesons, respectively. Within the model parameters, the charmed meson loop contributions are evaluated by using the effective Lagrangian approach. For χ${}_{c1}^{\mathrm{\prime <!--\; ???\; -->}}$ → VV, the partial widths of the ρρ, ωω, and K*$\stackrel{¯<!--\; ??\; -->}{K}$* channels can reach to the order of MeV, while the partial width of the ϕϕ channel is very small and in the order of keV. For χ${}_{c2}^{\mathrm{\prime <!--\; ???\; -->}}$ → VP, the partial widths of χ${}_{c2}^{\mathrm{\prime <!--\; ???\; -->}}$ → K*$\stackrel{¯<!--\; ??\; -->}{K}$ + c.c turns out to be sizeable, while the partial widths of χ${}_{c2}^{\mathrm{\prime <!--\; ???\; -->}}$ → ρ${}^{+}$π${}^{-<!--\; ???\; -->}$ + c.c is found to be much smaller than the K*$\stackrel{¯<!--\; ??\; -->}{K}$ + c.c channel. Our calculations may be examined by the future BESIII experiments.