trumped-up story
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The people, ready to believe almost anything for the sake of Chios, accepted this trumped-up story, saying: 'After all, it was a love affair, and Chios was not the man to reveal the lady's name.'
From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Short, Richard
You are crazy, child, to come to me with this trumped-up story!
From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
This evening my new interpreter came with a long trumped-up story, as to what the Sultan had said respecting my quarrel with Yusuf.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
Yes," snorted the chief, "and be laughed out of court on some trumped-up story framed by a well-paid lawyer.
From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by Taft, William Nelson
The trumped-up story is too puerile to have taken in any one who did not wish to believe it.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander
