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Put-up

Put-up \Put"-up\,

  1. Arranged; plotted; -- in a bad sense; as, a put-up jo

WordNet
put-up

adj. planned secretly; "it was a put-up job"

Usage examples of "put-up".

I saw that it was a regular put-up thing, and begged the captain to let me attend to the business, assuring him that I would settle it to his honour and advantage.

I saw that it was a put-up thing, yet I paid with pretty good grace, for I guessed that the scoundrel had left Venice without a penny.

The only luaus she had ever seen were the put-up jobs at Schofield for the officers.

A hundred jars of put-up peaches, tomatoes, and ocra lay on the floor, as richly colored as a church window where the sun touched them, some smashed and drooling thick liquid.

Even so, after all these months of tension, all this talk and campaigning, all the space devoted in newspapers to the Peruvian elections, a visitor to Lima arrives with a feeling that there is bound to be some evidence that the whole thing was a bust -- that it was all a put-up job, because the Armed Forces did exactly what they said they were going to do all along.

I saw that it was a put-up thing, yet I paid with pretty good grace, for I guessed that the scoundrel had left Venice without a penny.

That medical certificate of mine isn't the put-up job you all think it was.

He knew it was a put-up job that Manfred had organized to save himself from sitting through a second hour of a hard seat and bad music.

You see, if the spider lets the fly walk out too easily, the fly might suspect it was a put-up job.

The public was smart enough to recognize a put-up job when it saw one, and standing on principle over the issue would simply get them evicted from the Republic as well.

As a last hope Jane Finn was to be allowed to escape--and the escape must be managed so that she harbours no suspicions of its being a put-up job.

It proves, also, that Abraham Lincoln was a man of fine feelings, and that, if the occurrence was a put-up job on the lady's part, it accomplished the purpose all the same.

It was a complete fraud, a put-up job by the Knights to discredit their husbands and allow the prince to take over.

But she didn't like the idea that perhaps she was the victim of a put-up job.

But that would have been a real reason, not the put-up job Dornberger was forcing on him.