trumped-up
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A few years ago, my godfather was jailed on trumped-up “anticonversion” charges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
But I am frustrated as a medical doctor that a complex issue like fertility—and the trumped-up threat of small penises and “population collapse”—was hijacked without scientific merit as the main argument against plastic.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
One of them, ex-presidential hopeful Viktar Babaryka, was sentenced in 2021 to 14 years in prison on corruption charges, which his supporters say were trumped-up.
From BBC ● May 10, 2023
Some, of it was formal and trumped-up, overdone.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
A source close to Siddiq has previously described the allegations as "trumped up" and designed to damage her aunt.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2025
He was arrested on trumped up charges and lost everything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Aide Fawad Chaudhry said on Tuesday the charges were trumped up.
From Reuters ● May 9, 2023
Unlike many of the parents charged in the college admissions bribery scandal, prosecutors did not allege that the Zhao boys’ athletic credentials were fabricated or trumped up.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
For no man, it is to be feared, will now believe that Blake, sleeping or waking, forged the story of the commission or trumped up the story of the contract.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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