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  • noun A false incrimination of an innocent person

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Examples

  • My feeling is that this is a frameup simple and plain but who knows how it will end.

    Honesty is the best policy ReBecca Foster 2008

  • The way matters stand in America today, the executive branch can falsely prosecute, frameup, and imprison members of Congress and governors of states at will, but itself cannot be held accountable to law.

    How Republicans Created Executive Branch Hegemony 2008

  • Thus begins the most inept frameup of the 21st century, just in time for the 22nd!

    Savaging Ravage 2099 Brian Hughes 2006

  • Thus begins the most inept frameup of the 21st century, just in time for the 22nd!

    Archive 2006-09-01 Brian Hughes 2006

  • No one asks about the possibility of a frameup or false allegations regarding cockfighting.

    Protect the Roosters! To hell with domestic violence victims! 2005

  • If it had been known that excuses for waging wars were frequently fabricated, on this occasion it was possible to prove unquestionably, irrefutably, that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was an absolute frameup.

    BEFORE LEAVING FOR CHILE 1971

  • But it was a frameup-I never did no such thing nohow.

    Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963

  • This thing's a frameup, Max; I'd bet my ears on it.

    Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • "It's a frameup, that's what it is, a frameup on me and my prickly heat!"

    Isle o' Dreams Frederick Ferdinand Moore 1930

  • NUMB, Ro, 22.06.2010, 2 pm, rector´s office; a typical frameup, an abusive cross-examination, a violation of the art. 6 (right to a fair trial) of the ECHR; - "Misdemeanour" (abusive accusation) -- the promotion of the American and Hebrew

    WN.com - Articles related to Textile industry suffers in Surat 2010

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