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Example sentences for: trumped-up

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The old town of cobbled streets is dominated by the 17th-century town hall, home of the Távora family until the Marquês de Pombal had them all executed on a trumped-up charge of treason.
Hamid faces 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and losing his job, all over what he calls "really trumped-up charges."
It appeared in 1886, eight years before Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew in the French Army, was arrested on what proved to be trumped-up charges of spying for the Germans.
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.
Will you stand up to an official who can put you at significant risk of conviction with a trumped-up case?