欲加之罪，何患无辞

yù jiā zhī zuì , hé huàn wú cí

Definitions

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

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Child Words of 欲加之罪，何患无辞

to decline

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de])

to add

to suffer (from illness)

not to have

guilt

what

moreover

desire