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trump up
verb as in belie
verb as in coin
verb as in conceive
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verb as in construct
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verb as in contrive
verb as in devise
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verb as in distort
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verb as in fabricate
verb as in falsify
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verb as in fancy
verb as in fib
verb as in forge
verb as in hatch
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verb as in invent
verb as in machinate
verb as in make up
verb as in manufacture
verb as in misrepresent
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verb as in misrepresent/misquote
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- adulterate
- angle
- beard
- belie
- build up
- cloak
- color
- con
- confuse
- cover up
- disguise
- distort
- dress
- embellish
- embroider
- equivocate
- exaggerate
- falsify
- garble
- give snow job
- mangle
- mask
- miscolor
- misinterpret
- misreport
- misstate
- overdraw
- overstate
- palter
- pervert
- phony up
- pirate
- prevaricate
- promote
- puff
- skew
- slant
- snow
- spread it on
- stretch
- take out of context
- throw a curve
- twist
- warp
verb as in rig
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Example Sentences
He was arrested on trumped up charges and lost everything.
Khan said exiled journalists often face two major legal threats from their home countries: “investigation, prosecution and punishment in absentia, and the pursuit of their extradition on trumped up criminal charges.”
“In my mind, they trumped up the sanction to cease my communications,” Longshore said.
Western officials describe the charges as trumped up.
Rights groups have accused Iran of trying to win concessions from other countries through arrests on security charges that may have been trumped up.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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