Trumped-up

"Trumped-up" in a Sentence (6 examples)

He was jailed on trumped-up charges.

Tom was jailed on trumped-up charges.

All the criminal charges were trumped-up and the three Taliban detainees had to be released.

A diligent and vibrant, though exhausted, runner hurried to run in a wheelbarrow race that the tyrant's admirer wanted to kick off with a trumped-up excuse.

On May 18, 1944, on trumped-up charges, the authorities of the USSR began deporting Tatars from Crimea, as well as Germans, Armenians, Bulgarians, and Greeks.

These trumped-up charges are unfair to the defendant.

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