concocted

Every time a lie is told, a denial must be concocted to protect the lie by denying that it is a lie.

Kavanaugh histrionically denied them, saying at one point that they were concocted as “revenge on behalf of the Clintons.”

It would be the largest supermarket in U.S. history, concocted by the largest and second-largest such chains, which already had expanded through 10 mergers dating to 1983.

But he concocted a nutty “poison pill” that would have automatically killed the Democrats’ own anti-crime legislation if Proposition 36 was approved by voters.

In fact, Newsom has stopped giving annual State of the State addresses to a joint session of the Legislature — usually citing some concocted excuse, but really because of his difficulty with speech-reading.