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put-up job
noun as in conspiracy
Example Sentences
“I regarded the whole thing as a fabrication, a hoax, a put up job,” he wrote in May 1983.
For 'twas all, sir, a put-up job on a pore young man like me; And the jury was bribed a puppos, and aftdrst they couldn't agree.
"Why, can't you see this warrant is a put-up job," Charley exclaimed impatiently.
It was all a put-up job to get me out, and that Matson lad in.
Of course he was one of the gang, and his fall was a put-up job to get Will out of the way.
He had been intensely interested in the Arab's tale, and the thought that it was a put-up job did not appeal to him in the least.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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