trumped-up

“So now we are very sensitive to American customers, your American government always likes to make some trumped-up charges to sanction us.”

“This is a trumped-up charge. I sympathise with her very much.”

He finished in the top four in 34 of 59 tournaments until a trumped-up charge was brought against him by the Tour and he was banned.

Instead, they were arrested on trumped-up obscenity charges and subjected to expensive litigation before the case against them was thrown out for lack of evidence.

His government faces accusations of stifling dissent, with leading opposition figures jailed on what they say are trumped-up charges.