"Despite a series of charges and trumped-up stories, it showed we were clean."
"I don't know," said Vincent, repressing a smile at the major's persistency in sticking to the trumped-up story.
Dawnfire was allowed to escape, so that she could bring you this trumped-up story.
But that Annek found him pleasing he was forced to admit; there could be no other explanation for her trumped-up story and her pathetic little present.
You want to go to Mallorea to aid Belgarion-we all do-but don't try to fool the Gods with these trumped-up stories.
Shaking off her confusion, she said scornfully, 'Another trumped-up story, I suppose.'
Of course more skeptical sorts would argue that the trumped-up story seemed too good to be true.
Don't let him get away with this trumped-up story!
I'm sure she knows nothing, and, I might add, I don't for one minute believe this trumped-up story of abduction.
He thinks it's all a trumped-up story.