Made-up

"Made-up" in a Sentence (16 examples)

The current socioeconomic system is made-up.

That's a made-up problem that only affects lazy rich people.

"What does that word mean?" "Oh, it doesn't mean anything. It's just a made-up word that's supposed to sound like French."

Tom told us made-up stories to make himself seem interesting.

It's a made-up controversy.

You can go to the Daily Mail with any old made-up story about trans people and they'll print it.

One thing that separates real conspiracies from made-up ones is that Alex Jones doesn't talk about the real ones.

Is this a made-up story?

They used to use the gold standard for the economy, now they base it on made-up digital money.

I can’t stand the word 'empathy', actually. I think 'empathy' is a made-up, new-age term, and it does a lot of damage. I much prefer the word 'compassion', and I much prefer the word 'sympathy'. Empathy is where you try to feel someone’s pain and sorrows as if they’re your own. Compassion allows for understanding. I prefer the word 'sympathy', because politics has weaponized empathy.

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He told me a made-up version of the events, but I demanded the truth.

a freshly made-up clown

A man at the complex said he had seen the often heavily made-up girls coming and going in luxury vehicles.

The newly made-up front page had to be changed as the last-minute news arrived.

I was made-up when the local team won.

All three structures were sited on made-up ground, to depths up to about 20 ft., which had been deposited to form the railway embankments.

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