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frame-up

NOUN
  1. an act that incriminates someone on a false charge

How To Use frame-up In A Sentence

  • His criticism of the Moscow frame-up , and his exposure of the psychological mechanism of the "voluntary confessions", are excellent.
  • By now he was convinced that it had merely acquiesced in the frame-up after his arrest.
  • When he witnesses yet another murder being committed by his client, intimidation, kidnapping, and a vicious frame-up conspire to try to keep him from telling what he knows.
  • Neither of us spoke but in my eyes this looked like a frame-up and I was trying to find a tactful way to say so. SNOWJOB
  • The clumsy frame-up attempt was as stupid as it was shortsighted.
  • By now he was convinced that it had merely acquiesced in the frame-up after his arrest.
  • This article sources it to the attempted frame-up of Phil Berrigan et al. on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Kissenger, etc., based on testimony by an informant/provacateur who had infiltrated the Catholic nonviolent direct action antiwar movement. Discourse.net: 'Better Privacy' Firefox Add-On Eats Hidden Cookies
  • The organization protested that it was the victim of a politically motivated frame-up.
  • So far we don't have sufficient evidence to decide whether he committed a crime or whether it was a frame-up or a political conspiracy.
  • Over the course of the first-season finale, Richmond went from the presumed killer of Rosie Larsen to victim of a frame-up job by the shady Det. Cheers & Jeers: The Killing's Billy Campbell in the Soup
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