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Example sentences for: trumped-up

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Hamid faces 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and losing his job, all over what he calls "really trumped-up charges."
It's hard to buy the trumped-up scene where the principal--another myopic patriarch--warns Dern not to give her students "false hopes" (although this does give Dern a chance to do her rubber lips specialty, gazing at the principal in wordless horror while her mouth continually reforms itself like some strange Gumby creature).
Gigot thinks the tax fraud proceedings against Hubbell are legitimate and ordinary, while everyone else regards the indictments as trumped-up mini-crimes meant to squeeze Hubbell into giving Starr what he wants--cooperation.
The cover story recounts the story of a black World War II hero later refused re-enlistment by the Army because of trumped-up charges of Communist activity.
The English queen kept her cousin in captivity for 20 years and finally had her beheaded on a trumped-up charge of treason.