Trumped Up

Word TRUMPED UP
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What do we mean by trumped up?

Fradulently devised; fabricated. adjective

Fabricated out of nothing or deceitfully; forged; false; worthless.

Faked, fabricated or falsely manufactured. Usually in the phrase trumped-up charges referring to legal accusation made for illegitimate reasons. adjective

Concocted with intent to deceive adjective

Faked, fabricated or falsely manufactured.

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The word "trumped-up" in example sentences

The mother of a prominent Egyptian blogger has gone on a hunger strike until her son is released from jail after his arrest on what human rights groups call trumped-up charges to silence critics of the nation's ruling military council. ❋ Jeffrey Fleishman (2011)

(TPM reminds us that Mr. Sessions got his start by "prosecuting three African-American voting rights activists on trumped-up charges of voter fraud.") ❋ Unknown (2009)

David Ravelo Crespo from Barrancabermeja was detained September 14th, one of many Colombian human rights leaders being prosecuted on what appear to be trumped-up charges. ❋ Lisa Haugaard (2010)

Her legal file, everyone knows it, is empty or full of trumped-up charges. ❋ Bernard-Henri Lévy (2010)

Blogger Nguyen Hoang Hai, who wrote under the pen name Dieu Cai, was illegally detained past the end of his two-and-a-half year sentence for trumped-up tax evasion charges. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Six months ago, an Iranian appeals court reduced the jail sentences of the seven leaders of Iran's Bahai community to 10 years from 20 years, after they were convicted in August on a series of trumped-up charges. ❋ Kishan Manocha (2011)

To his utter shame, Obama never once contradicted these slanderous, trumped-up accusations, which he could have easily refuted simply by citing the relevant statistics -- statistics he had access to. ❋ David Macaray (2011)

It has never been established whether Saro-Wiwa ordered that pipelines be punctured, but Abacha had him arrested on a variety of trumped-up charges and executed anyway, along with seven regional leaders. ❋ Roger Bate (2010)

If the government of Bahrain is serious about moving toward reconciliation it should immediately release all political prisoners, dismiss trumped-up charges against civilians including medical professionals who treated injured protesters, reinstate workers who lost their jobs for political reasons, immediately end the use of torture, stop extra-judicial killings and detentions, and proceed with reparations to those harmed. ❋ Sarah Trister (2011)

You kept the president of the South-western Amalgamated Association of Miners in jail for three years on trumped-up murder charges, and with him out of the way you broke up the association. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A Sunni-dominated political bloc has continued an almost one-month-long boycott of both the Shiite-led government and Parliament to protest what it describes as Mr. Maliki's increasingly dictatorial ways of concentrating powers in his hands and of hounding Sunni leaders like Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi with allegedly trumped-up terrorism charges. ❋ Sam Dagher (2012)

And though the report cites the release of political prisoners and the dropping of charges against others as a sign of goodwill on the part of the government, it neglects to mention that simultaneously, more were being arrested and charged, creating a revolving door of trumped-up charges and false imprisonment. ❋ Sarah Trister (2011)

Chen Guangcheng, a blind legal activist, has been held captive in his own home, along with his wife and child, since being released last September from the prison where he had been held for four years and three months on trumped-up charges. ❋ Joshua Rosenzweig (2011)

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