trumped-up

We need to separate trumped-up fears from the legitimate ones.

The depositions of other officers suggested that the “property damage” charges were not just bizarre, but trumped up.

Three Al Jazeera journalists have been jailed in Egypt on trumped-up charges of collaborating with the Muslim Brotherhood.

No issue better captures the dysfunction of Washington than the trumped up debate over the Keystone XL pipeline.

It explains why a trumped up story of online vitriol—we are, mind you, talking about Jeopardy!

But he failed to impose upon the Colonel, and was even far from impressing him with this trumped-up knowledge of bygone days.

"It is a cowardly pretext on the part of the citizens, trumped up to save their property for the Yankees," said he.

Robber raids they called these wars which he waged for trumped-up pretexts.

With the connivance of a corrupt police force, Tim can even ruin him on a trumped-up charge.

Then she began to ask herself if he had spoken the truth, or had trumped up this story to frighten her?