Definitions

put-up job

NOUN

conspiracy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

plot scheme sedition treason

STRONG

cabal confederacy connivance countermine counterplot disloyalty fix frame game hookup intrigue league machination perfidy practice treachery trick trickery

WEAK

complot covin little game treacherousness

Antonyms

STRONG

faithfulness honesty ignorance loyalty

NOUN

scheme

Synonyms

STRONGEST

action conspiracy game plan ploy practice scenario

STRONG

angle brainchild cabal dodge frame-up game gimmick hookup hustle hype intrigue layout machination picture pitch proposition ruse scene setup shift story stratagem subterfuge tactics trick twist

WEAK

covin

Example Sentences

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“This is not quite a put-up job, but nonetheless has been cobbled together so that Ghislaine is made to face the charges that Epstein never faced,’’ Ian Maxwell said.

From Washington Times • Nov. 26, 2021

That, and the fact that their prosecution was clearly a put-up job.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2013

Inevitably, some are saying that it is a put-up job, a PR stunt, but if so, someone should turf Dame Judi off whatever movie she's working on and hire Sarah Murdoch immediately instead.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2010

It had all the feel of a put-up job.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I don't like to make trouble, see, but that was a put-up job."

From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various

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