Dictionary › 欲加之罪，何患无辞

欲加之罪，何患无辞

yù jiā zhī zuì , hé huàn wú cí

9-character word Traditional 欲加之罪，何患無辭

What 欲加之罪，何患无辞 means

1. If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左传); one can always trump up a charge against sb
2. Give a dog a bad name, then hang him.

The characters in 欲加之罪，何患无辞

• 欲yùdesire; appetite; passion
• 加jiāto add; (math) plus; to increase; to augment
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 罪zuìguilt; crime; fault
• 何héwhat; how; why
• 患huànto suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune
• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 辞cíto resign; to dismiss; to decline

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yù jiā zhī zuì , hé huàn wú cí correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.