trumped-up
trumped-up[ adj ]
concocted with intent to deceive
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trumped-up charges
- At the Food Emporium, a young investment banker critiques a $3.99 Le Menu Chicken Kiev as "nothing more than a trumped-up TV dinner priced for yuppies."
- Thursday marks the 41st anniversary of the sentencing of Mindszenty on trumped-up charges designed to break the resistance of the Catholic Church to Communist rule.
- The State Department argues that diplomatic immunity must be granted to all foreign members of the diplomatic community in order to ensure that foreign governments don't retaliate by filing trumped-up charges against U.S. diplomats.
- Until recently, the teaching of Hebrew and practice of Jewish culture often resulted in jail terms on trumped-up charges ranging from anti-Soviet propaganda to drug possession.
- Opposition supporters say these convictions were based on trumped-up charges by repressive governments.