Definitions for trumped-up

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Spelling: [truhmpt-uhp]
IPA: /ˈtrʌmptˈʌp/

Trumped-Up is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 191 anagrams from letters in trumped-up (-dempprtuu).

Definitions for trumped-up

adjective

  1. spuriously devised; fraudulent; fabricated:

Origin of trumped-up

1720-30; special use of trump1; see -ed2

Examples for trumped-up

A hero so big that all these trumped-up charges against you will be dropped?

Unless you help to make the laws, They'll steal your house with trumped-up clause.

Spadaro blew the whistle and was fired two years later on trumped-up charges.

I confess that the affair looks to me like a trumped-up story.

Sweeping gun control measures, the DREAM Act, and the trumped-up “war on women” immediately come to mind.

Three Al Jazeera journalists have been jailed in Egypt on trumped-up charges of collaborating with the Muslim Brotherhood.

With the help of the police and the judiciary, dissidents are unlawfully clapped into jails on trumped-up charges.

It began with trumped-up business, and ended in a confession.

He dismissed her only this morning, on a trumped-up charge of incompetence.

I admit I'm wanted in New York on a trumped-up charge of embezzlement.

Word Value for trumped-up
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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