trumped-up

Speech parts

1. trumped-up - Adjective

2. trumped-up - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

concocted with intent to deceive

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Alternative names

trumped up

Synonyms

fantastic false empty arbitrary romantic fictional legendary fake mythical absurd fictitious erroneous fabricated spurious faulty
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Antonyms

just right good certain real true
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Examples

trumped-up charges Source: Internet

And on the bilateral front, no one who slaps tariffs on Canadian goods on trumped-up “security” grounds can be considered a friend. Source: Internet

All were shot in Moscow between 1936 and 1938 during the era of Stalin's Great Purge on trumped-up charges of being either German or Polish spies. Source: Internet

Dozens of military contractors, most of them Black, have been jailed in the emirate — some on trumped-up drug charges. Source: Internet

Idris Sultan was in court at least four times to answer trumped-up charges of failing to register a SIM card previously owned by another person. Source: Internet

For example, Saad Ibrahim, a leading scholar and dual citizen of Egypt and the US who works for tolerance and democracy, was recently sent to jail for seven years in Egypt on what are widely viewed as trumped-up charges. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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