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trumped-up

ADJECTIVE
  1. concocted with intent to deceive
    trumped-up charges

How To Use trumped-up In A Sentence

  • Trumped-up charges of conspiracy to overthrow the queen, and an unjustly conducted prosecution, brought conviction of treason and hanging at Tyburn.
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  • Nano, imprisoned on what he insists were trumped-up corruption charges, was freed as the disorders heated up.
  • The trumped-up charges hung over his head for several years.
  • And when they came to arrest Sid on what he termed a trumped-up charge he reached for his gun. Blue Ridge Country
  • She was arrested on a trumped-up charge.
  • Dozens of opposition leaders have been arrested on trumped-up charges.
  • History is full of trumped-up threats.
  • He was sent to prison for five years on a trumped-up income tax charge.
  • She was imprisoned on trumped-up corruption charges.
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