trumped-up
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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
Mr. Lai has been in prison on trumped-up charges ever since.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
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
He was arrested on trumped up charges and lost everything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
He is now serving combined sentences of 11-1/2 years in a high-security penal colony for fraud and contempt of court on charges that he says were trumped up to silence him.
From Reuters ● Mar. 13, 2023
“One day he decided to ‘invite’ me to his ‘breakfast club’ on some trumped up charge,” he wrote.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was first detained by Tehran on trumped up espionage charges in 2016.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2022
A charge of impiety was trumped up against him.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)
