frameup
Planted evidence scheme
A frameup is a scheme to make an innocent person appear guilty, typically through fabricated evidence or false testimony: The conviction was overturned when the frameup was exposed.
The word implies deliberate conspiracy, often by those with power—corrupt police, vindictive rivals, or criminal organizations covering their tracks.
Also spelled frame-up.
Storyline or land parcel
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- falsificationDeliberate alteration of truth
- incriminateShow involvement in wrongdoing
plant · forge · perjury · fix · stratagem · entrapment · sting · decoy
Pregnancy lost naturally
- injusticeDenial of fair treatment
- wrongful convictionErroneous guilty verdict
- scapegoatUnfairly blamed person
- fall guyOne blamed for others
patsy · victim · innocent · exoneration · vindication · persecution · railroaded · trumped-up
Hard-boiled film genre
- thrillerSuspense-driven narrative genre
- suspenseAnxious uncertainty about outcomes
- whodunitCrime fiction identifying perpetrator
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
detective · procedural · twist · red herring · alibi · evidence · witness · interrogation
plot
Storyline or land parcel
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- falsificationDeliberate alteration of truth
incriminate · plant · forge · perjury · fix · stratagem · entrapment · sting · decoy · bait
miscarriage
Pregnancy lost naturally
- injusticeDenial of fair treatment
- wrongful convictionErroneous guilty verdict
- scapegoatUnfairly blamed person
fall guy · patsy · victim · innocent · exoneration · vindication · persecution · railroaded · trumped-up · planted evidence
noir
Hard-boiled film genre
- thrillerSuspense-driven narrative genre
- suspenseAnxious uncertainty about outcomes
- whodunitCrime fiction identifying perpetrator
mystery · detective · procedural · twist · red herring · alibi · evidence · witness · interrogation · motive
- false accusationsfalse accusation, false charge, false claim, wrongful accusation, bum rap
- setupsarrangement, configuration, installation, layout, rig
frameupexoneration
Official clearing of blame
vindication · acquittal · fair trial · due process · justice
- 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, framed, frame-up, frameworks, doorframe, reframe, mainframe, unframed