欲加之罪，何患无辞
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Traditional: 欲加之罪，何患無辭
Anyone set on finding a person guilty will never be short of a pretext. Said in protest, or with bitter resignation, when a charge is clearly invented.
Đã muốn buộc tội ai thì lo gì không tìm ra cớ. Dùng để phản đối, hoặc than một cách chua chát, khi lời buộc tội rõ ràng là do người ta dựng lên.
Register: literary
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 何 = hà · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “dục gia chi tội, hà hoạn vô từ” (duc-gia-chi-toi-ha-hoan-vo-tu). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “欲加之罪，何患无辞” mean?
Anyone set on finding a person guilty will never be short of a pretext. Said in protest, or with bitter resignation, when a charge is clearly invented. Literally: wanting to charge someone, why fear lacking words
Is “欲加之罪，何患无辞” formal or informal?
欲加之罪，何患无辞 is generally literary.