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
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 ● Sep. 17, 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
At the very last second, just as Charles was nearing victory, the batty billionaire disqualified him on a trumped-up technicality.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
A source close to her called these "trumped up charges".
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
He was arrested on trumped up charges and lost everything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Suu Kyi, 77, is serving 33 years in prison after being found guilty on multiple charges her allies say were trumped up to end her political career.
From Reuters ● Mar. 29, 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
Doctor Russel was the man that trumped up the charges about Mrs. Goforth.
From Four Years A Scout and Spy by E. C. Downs
