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Trumped-up

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Adjective

1. trumped-up

concocted with intent to deceive

Example Sentences:
'trumped-up charges'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Trumped-up

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adjective
untrue, and made up in order to punish someone unfairly
He had been imprisoned on a trumped-up charge.

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Trumped-up

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adjective
fraudulently devised or concocted; false

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Trumped-up

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adj.
Fradulently devised; fabricated: trumped-up criminal charges.

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