trumped-up
Example Sentences
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At the time of his death he had been in jail for three years on trumped-up charges and had recently been transferred to a penal colony in the Arctic Circle.
From BBC
He ended up in prison in Thailand, on what he insists were trumped-up fraud charges.
From BBC
Mark Li, 60, had been held in China since September 2016 on what activists say were trumped-up spying charges.
From BBC
“So now we are very sensitive to American customers, your American government always likes to make some trumped-up charges to sanction us.”
From Los Angeles Times
“This is a trumped-up charge. I sympathise with her very much.”
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
