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Synonyms for frame-up

false charge

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for frame-up

an act that incriminates someone on a false charge

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Lawyer Michael Mansfield called it the "biggest frameup ever", as the claims came to light on BBC's Inside Out.
The narrative stashes ample drama and scope for action as Salt uses her skills as a covert operative to try and uncover the truth behind the frameup.
Mack tried to be fair to Garvey, but Mack's refusal to recuse himself convinced Garvey and his wife, Amy Jacques-Garvey, that he was the victim of "an international frameup" orchestrated by the NAACP and the Jewish prosecutor and judge and their fellow Jews on the jury.
Whitten as a "young spectacled" stooge who concocts a "fantastic" and "far-fetched" theory of a "frameup" by Moses Wright and others.
"Sacco E Vanzetti," Drama; The frameup of Sacco and Vanzetti and their trial has been called a shameful mark on the face of American judiciary system.
(52) In addition, when he raised the "doctors' plot" affair, the prosecution of physicians, most of them Jewish, for allegedly conspiring to kill the Soviet leaders on orders from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Zionists, the response was: "Actually, more non-Jews than Jews were indicted in that unfortunate frameup, but it was perpetrated by Lavrenti Beria (now thoroughly discredited)." The accused doctors had been released and the whole issue buried.
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