put-up
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.59 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.
noun
Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone or to advance one's own interests.
Example Sentences
- "Orrin Judd at the BrothersJudd.com declared that Carroll "may as well just come right out and say she was a willing participant" . . . and a commenter at RedState.com asserted, ". . . I say the kidnapping was a put up deal from the get go.""
- "Gerald Green . . . said he was innocent and the documents were a deliberate effort, perhaps concocted by a superior officer, to frame him. . . . "The whole thing was a put-up stunt.""
- "A “romantically obsessed ” Italian man was yesterday acquitted of conspiring to steal his former lover ’s mobile phone by commissioning a hapless duo to take it from her after a put-up mock traffic accident."
- "None of this is a sham: it is not a put-up show for us."
- "A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) – the Senator in question – told The Arkansas Times that the whole thing was a put-up and that no internship in the Senator’s office had been purchased at auction."