trumped-up story
Example Sentences
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Yes," snorted the chief, "and be laughed out of court on some trumped-up story framed by a well-paid lawyer.
From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by Taft, William Nelson
I alone know that your trumped-up story cannot possibly be true.
From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles
The trumped-up story is too puerile to have taken in any one who did not wish to believe it.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander
"He came to her with a trumped-up story of an old schoolmate of aunt's who was in need of money."
From Luke Walton by Alger, Horatio
The trumped-up story of the guards sufficiently shows that.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander
