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trumped up

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trumped up
adjective invented, made-up, manufactured, false, fake, contrived, untrue, fabricated, concocted, falsified, cooked-up (informal), phoney or phony (informal) He was put on trial facing trumped up spy charges.
real, sound, true, actual, genuine, authentic, veritable, bona fide, dinkum (Austral & N.Z. informal)


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He decreed that no blind man should sing of any miracle in verse, unless he could produce authentic evidence that it was true, for it was his opinion that most of those the blind men sing are trumped up, to the detriment of the true ones.
 
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