Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A scheme to incriminate an innocent person.
- noun A contest or deliberation the outcome of which is fraudulently prearranged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang, Slang, Slang A conspiracy or plot for a malicious or evil purpose
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
frameup .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb construct by fitting or uniting parts together
- noun an act that incriminates someone on a false charge
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Examples
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She says frame-up trials against her are taking place uninterrupted and will continue until the next parliamentary elections to prevent her from participating in politics and from helping people.
Former Ukraine PM to Stand Trial for Abuse of Power Charges 2011
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This article sources it to the attempted frame-up of Phil Berrigan et al. on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Kissenger, etc., based on testimony by an informant/provacateur who had infiltrated the Catholic nonviolent direct action antiwar movement.
Discourse.net: 'Better Privacy' Firefox Add-On Eats Hidden Cookies 2009
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OK, I'll stop feeding into their frame-up by using all the military metaphors, how's that for a start?
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Class Warfare? Hardly. Chris Weigant 2011
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She says frame-up trials against her are taking place uninterrupted and will continue until the next parliamentary elections to prevent her from participating in politics and from helping people.
Former Ukraine PM to Stand Trial for Abuse of Power Charges 2011
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OK, I'll stop feeding into their frame-up by using all the military metaphors, how's that for a start?
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Class Warfare? Hardly. Chris Weigant 2011
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Over the course of the first-season finale, Richmond went from the presumed killer of Rosie Larsen to victim of a frame-up job by the shady Det.
Cheers & Jeers: The Killing's Billy Campbell in the Soup 2011
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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 Devlin Barrett 2011
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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 2011
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Now note three things: (a) Cecil Winwood was so detested by his fellow convicts that they would not have permitted him to bet an ounce of Bull Durham on a bedbug race — and bedbug racing was a great sport with the convicts; (b) I was the dog that had been given a bad name; (c) for his frame-up, Cecil Winwood needed the dogs with bad names, the lifetimers, the desperate ones, the incorrigibles.
Chapter 2 2010
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Marnie Tunay appears to think that the conviction of one of the Toronto 18 accused settles the question of whether the arrests and prosecutions can appropriately be described, as in the title of my article, as “fraud and fearmongering,” and as a “frame-up.”
Fraud and Fearmongering in the “War on Terror” : Law is Cool 2009
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