cooked-up
Example Sentences
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While Marissa and Peter pivot between rage and not-quite-mourning, and other characters are perpetrating cooked-up complications to the story, Alcaras conducts an investigation that is so commonsensical it defies the rules of crime fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025
The lawsuit lists a series of meetings and messages in which the clinic attempted to address the state’s cooked-up licensing concerns, to no avail.
From Washington Times • May 29, 2019
On the way, he asked for $200, telling a cooked-up story about a friend with a broken-down car.
From New York Times • May 25, 2018
I hope your husband tells you that as far as Mother’s Day was concerned, he thought he was reading your signals that this cooked-up celebration meant nothing to you.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2014
Suppose, after all, this is a bit of a trick, a cooked-up lie to cheat us.”
From Fitz the Filibuster by Piffard, Harold
