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What does trumped-up mean?

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Adjective
  1. Faked, fabricated or falsely manufactured; usually in the phrase trumped-up charges referring to legal accusation of questionable veracity made for illegitimate reasons.
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Mr Cubin maintains that those are trumped-up charges and that no evidence has been produced to substantiate them.
For his troubles, he was sentenced to 28 years in prison on trumped-up charges.
It is not any of those trumped-up ridiculous overstatements that we are hearing from members of the opposition.
The trumped-up charges hung over his head for several years.
Finally, one of the opposition leaders, Mr Yawovi Agboyibo, was arrested and sentenced, a month ago, on trumped-up charges.
The governing and opposition parties are growing more confrontational, trading trumped-up accusations and even blows on the legislative floor.

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