trumped-up story
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Do you come to me with your trumped-up story?
From Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
You cannot come here with such a trumped-up story!
From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch
How improbable the trumped-up story that Grant could decoy from his home his bitterest enemy, especially at the midnight hour!
From Idle Hour Stories by Eugenia Dunlap Potts
The people, ready to believe almost anything for the sake of Chios, accepted this trumped-up story, saying: 'After all, it was a love affair, and Chios was not the man to reveal the lady's name.'
From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Richard Short
"I confess that the affair looks to me like a trumped-up story."
From Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants by Oliver Optic
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