trumped-up story

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I alone know that your trumped-up story cannot possibly be true.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles

All this time the chauffeur was keeping Jennings busy over the telephone with some trumped-up story.

From The Exploits of Elaine by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

This evening my new interpreter came with a long trumped-up story, as to what the Sultan had said respecting my quarrel with Yusuf.

From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James

You cannot come here with such a trumped-up story!

From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lynch, Lawrence L.

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