Examples of 'trumped-up charges' in a sentence

Meaning of "trumped-up charges"

trumped-up charges: This phrase is used to describe false or exaggerated accusations or charges brought against someone, usually for malicious purposes

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trumped-up charges
Those trumped-up charges gave me street cred.
I therefore refuse to plea to these trumped-up charges.
All on trumped-up charges or crimes long forgotten.
He has a history of dishing out trumped-up charges.
Persecuting me on trumped-up charges is political suicide.
Several panthers are still being held in prison on trumped-up charges.
Pin on me all the trumped-up charges you want.
One of my sons has been falsely imprisoned on trumped-up charges.
He is facing trumped-up charges as a result of his journalistic work.
Two weeks in prison on trumped-up charges.
Completely trumped-up charges by a cop that we now know was crooked.
I have been in court on a thousand trumped-up charges.
He was there on trumped-up charges of treason.
And have the police pick him up on some trumped-up charges.
The sentences were based on trumped-up charges of belonging to terrorist groups.

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Bloggers and youth activists had been harassed and imprisoned on trumped-up charges.
Says the department that depends on trumped-up charges to keep the lights on.
Trade union and social activists are routinely thrown in jail on trumped-up charges.
Fighting the trumped-up charges of an overzealous police officer was too much for him.
We wish to cut out at the root the trumped-up charges against our country.
Those trumped-up charges you used to put me away have lost their teeth.
It even uses national power to oppress certain countries and businesses with trumped-up charges.
That decision would be accompanied by trumped-up charges of Iranian violations.
The GOP-led Congress spent years trying to drive him from office on trumped-up charges.
All Casey wants is to avoid being arrested on trumped-up charges from her persistent ex-boyfriend.
Police all across the South arrested civil rights activists on trumped-up charges.
President Ilham Aliyev 's regime often uses trumped-up charges to silence outspoken journalists and bloggers.
At least nine journalists are currently in Uzbek prisons on trumped-up charges.
Typically, the Gruevski government used trumped-up charges and threats of detention to further its interests.
Lenin fled to Finland as hundreds of Bolsheviks were arrested on trumped-up charges.
Drop the trumped-up charges against Bauer.
They threatened to have Charlie arrested on trumped-up charges of theft.
What he got were trumped-up charges of treason that were unprecedented in American Legal History.
The dictatorship of Equatorial Uqbar Orbis … is detaining him on trumped-up charges.
I want you to drop the trumped-up charges against Jack Bauer.
The Canadian Free Press said the journalist was held on trumped-up charges.
Mum, they are trumped-up charges based on a friendship that Terry had with Martin Johnstone back home.
He 's already arrested several officers on trumped-up charges.
His execution on trumped-up charges fuelled the War of the Five Kings.
And we both know that's what these trumped-up charges are about.
For the same trumped-up charges they had on Maddy Wilson… Being Black and in Boston.
Get them on some trumped-up charges.
And what trumped-up charges are you bringing against me, Superintendent?
All they had was trumped-up charges.
Those trumped-up charges gave me street cred . In case somebody got wise.
Another word for trumped-up charges.
Some, including Ganimat Zahid himself, have served long jail sentences on trumped-up charges.
Us five being brought in on trumped-up charges to be leaned on by half-wits.
That was in Thailand, and they were totally trumped-up charges.
He was in prison on trumped-up charges in South America for 15 years.

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