0 past simple and past participle of trump --
1 If you trump another player's card, you beat it with a card that belongs to the group of cards that has been chosen to have the highest value in the game you are playing. --
I think that the whole situation is a spurious, trumped-up one.
When challenged to give concrete examples, they merely make trumped-up allegations.
What worries me is the difficulty of distinguishing between a genuine charge and a trumped-up charge.
Certainly nothing could have been more devoid of substance than the trumped-up charge upon which this agitation was based.
The producers maintained that it was a trumped-up charge, and they successfully proceeded against a journal in this country which reproduced the article.
As a result, some communities have turned to paramilitaries to enforce some form of trumped-up justice.
That is the truth, not some trumped-up story seeking to appeal to the emotions.
He has been detained for the last 13 months on trumped-up charges, without trial and denied access to the outside world.
