欲加之罪，何患無辭

欲加之罪，何患无辞
yùjiāzhīzuì,héhuànwúcí
  1. If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左傳); one can always trump up a charge against sb
  2. Give a dog a bad name, then hang him.

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Entry Composition

=1 欲 yù
  1. desire
  2. appetite
  3. passion
  4. lust
  5. greed
=1 欲 yù
  1. to wish for
  2. to desire
  3. variant of 慾 yù
2 加之 jiāzhī moreover; in addition to that
=3 罪 zuì
  1. guilt
  2. crime
  3. fault
  4. blame
  5. sin
=3 罪 zuì variant of 罪 zuì, crime
4 何 hé
  1. what
  2. how
  3. why
  4. which
  5. carry
5 患 huàn
  1. to suffer (from illness)
  2. to contract (a disease)
  3. misfortune
  4. trouble
  5. danger
  6. worry
6 無 wú
  1. not to have
  2. no
  3. none
  4. not
  5. to lack
  6. un-
  7. -less
7 辭 cí
  1. to resign
  2. to dismiss
  3. to decline
  4. (literary) to take leave
  5. (archaic poetic genre) ballad
  6. variant of 詞 cí