trumping up
Inventing bogus charges
Trumping up is fabricating or inventing false evidence or accusations: They trumped up charges against him to justify the arrest.
The phrase implies deliberate falsification—not honest error but intentional deception to create a pretext.
A trumped-up case has no legitimate basis.
- perjuryCriminal courtroom dishonesty
- false accusationUntrue claim of wrongdoing
- schemingCrafty and calculating
- scapegoatingUnfairly assigning fault to innocents
- misrepresentationFalse or misleading statement
framing · forgery · maneuvering · conspiracy · dirty tricks · railroading · fabrication · pretense · deceit · false pretenses · bad faith · hoax · sham · unethical behavior · judicial misconduct · fraudulence · libel · concocting
legitimacy of accusation
trumping upsubstantiating
Proving something true
proving · corroborating · validating · documenting · verifying
procedural integrity
trumping upacting in good faith