What is "trumped-up"

Usage examples of "trumped-up".

When Squire Gooch has been consumed by that other evil, I predict that the trumped-up Obeah will vanish as quickly as it was introduced.

He made it to be as if, from the beginning, I had known that Psyche's lover was a god, and as if all my doublings, fears, guessings, debatings, questionings of Bardia, questionings of the Fox, all the rummage and business of it, had been trumped-up foolery, dust blown in my own eyes by myself.

There were antihero superheroes, supermen with feet of clay, protagonists who not only didn't have the Gotham City or Metropolis police forces at their beck and call, but who were being actively pursued for imagined or trumped-up crimes.

But I've also seen him dirty and stinking and exhausted, seen him fighting Napoleon's cavalrymen with only a knife, seen him unjustly court-martialled on a trumped-up charge of cowardice .

I got a walk on those trumped-up molestation counts if I did five hundred hours of community service, worked at the dog pound and got therapy from Dr Lecter.

It was a ridiculously trumped-up claim, of course, but Lisereth Hews was a dangerous woman.

For all Grant knew, Turego could have the local law enforcement looking for them under trumped-up charges.

The phony charges, the trumped-up smears and lies and vicious poison-pen letters, mailed to Unity without signature.

What, d'you think I'm nobody, to be railroaded by some tinpot foreign court on a trumped-up charge?

They railroaded Oppenheimer on trumped-up charges that he was a communist.

Staring at the bar kept me from thinking, the loud jazz kept my ears perked for the sound of voices above it, the booze kept me from rousting the stocky man on a half dozen trumped-up charges.

We do not intend to spend our vacations being victimized by your government on some trumped-up charges.