framed
Set up unfairly
Framed describes something set within a frame—a picture mounted and bordered, a view bounded by a window, a face framed by hair.
In construction, a framed house has a wooden skeleton.
The past tense of frame covers these and more: She framed the photo, He framed his argument carefully.
But framed alone most often means falsely incriminated—evidence planted or manipulated to make an innocent person appear guilty: He swore he'd been framed.
Without legitimate cause
- innocentFree from moral wrong
- setupHow something is arranged
- falselyContrary to fact
- convictedJudged guilty of crime
blamed · evidence · planted · scapegoat · railroaded · conspiracy · accused · charges
Tangled into clumps
- mountedFixed in position
- hungFastened from above
- gallerySpace for displaying artwork
- portraitArtistic depiction of someone
photograph · canvas · border · glass · wall · display · artwork · print
Quick liquor serving
- cameraImage capturing device
- viewfinderCamera's composition window
- cinematographyMotion picture visual craft
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
scene · captured · centered · cropped · angle · lens · focus · foreground
wrongfully
Without legitimate cause
convicted · blamed · evidence · planted · scapegoat · railroaded · conspiracy · accused · charges · crime
matted
Tangled into clumps
portrait · photograph · canvas · border · glass · wall · display · artwork · print · museum
shot
Quick liquor serving
- cameraImage capturing device
- viewfinderCamera's composition window
- cinematographyMotion picture visual craft
composition · scene · captured · centered · cropped · angle · lens · focus · foreground · background
contextualized
Given relevant background
- positionedSet in location
- presentedFormally gave or showed
- narrativeAccount of events
viewpoint · angle · bias · interpretation · spin · rhetoric · discourse · media · messaging · perception
built
Constructed or assembled
- timberWood for construction
- structureArrangement of interconnected parts
- skeletonInternal supportive framework
studs · joists · beams · rafters · carpentry · lumber · wooden · house · walls · building
- decoratedadorned, bedecked, decorated, embellished, festooned
- diving masksdual lens, low volume, full face, prescription lenses, tempered glass
- wrongedabused, mistreated, victimized, exploited, oppressed
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
- property traitsspacious, cozy, rundown, dilapidated, vacant
- shapescircle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval
framedunframed
Without enclosing border
frameless · unmounted · loose · unbordered · unencased
framedexonerated
Cleared of wrongdoing
cleared · guilty · vindicated · acquitted · caught red-handed
framedunframed
Without enclosing border
demolished · unbuilt · razed · unstructured · deconstructed
- picture frameDecorative border for images
- time frameDesignated period for completion
- door frameEntry's structural surround
- bed frameMattress-supporting structure
- frame of mindOne's current mental attitude
- freeze frameHalted motion picture image
frame, framework, framing, frames, frameless, reframe, unframed, reframing, reframed