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trumped-up

[truhmpt-uhp] / ˈtrʌmptˈʌp /
ADJECTIVE
made up
Synonyms
WEAK
bogus concocted cooked-up deceitful devised dishonest fabricated fake false falsified fictitious fishy framed fraudulent imaginary incorrect invalid invented lying made up misleading phony sham unfounded unsound untrue
trumped up
ADJECTIVE
made up
Synonyms
WEAK
bogus concocted cooked up cooked-up deceitful devised dishonest fabricated fake false falsified fictitious fishy framed fraudulent imaginary incorrect invalid invented lying made up misleading phony sham unfounded unsound untrue

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He was arrested on trumped up charges and lost everything.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024

Western officials describe the charges as trumped up.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024

He is now serving combined sentences of 11-1/2 years in a high-security penal colony for fraud and contempt of court on charges that he says were trumped up to silence him.

From Reuters • Mar. 13, 2023

“One day he decided to ‘invite’ me to his ‘breakfast club’ on some trumped up charge,” he wrote.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2022

Angulo denied all the charges, and declared that they had been trumped up against him because he had obeyed the King in emancipating the Indians.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

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