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frame-up

NOUN
  1. an act that incriminates someone on a false charge

How To Use frame-up In A Sentence

  • He has called the charges a frame-up'' and says he is a legitimate businessman who never had any intention of selling weapons. Suspected Russian Arms Dealer Goes on Trial
  • Note: Since our last report on the EU-US frame-up of Assange it is now being reported that one of his two accusers, Anna Ardin, has fled Sweden and is now in hiding in the Palestinian territories.
  • The accusations of sabotage are being viewed among workers as a crude frame-up attempt, aimed at creating conditions to sack the crew and bypass the court.
  • More stridently he asserted that the evidence of the State appeared to be ‘a frame-up.’
  • A campaign against the frame-up was immediately launched by the International Labor Defense, the legal and defense arm of the US Communist Party.
  • Racist and anti-communist prejudice was the glue which kept these dirty frame-ups from crumbling.
  • He denied the charges and accused the government of orchestrating a frame-up.
  • He called the prosecution case against him a frame-up that is part of a government-inspired persecution stretching back decades.
  • Almost from the outset, their arrest showed signs of being a frame-up.
  • That compares with 22% who are certain that it is a set up, and another 35% who said it was "probably" a frame-up, for a total of 57% who think it's likely he was set up. Notable & Quotable
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