put-up
Adjective

put-up

  1. (of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.
    • 2006 Apr. 7, Jim Geraghty, "Where Blogosphere Has Succeeded, And Where It's Fallen Short ↗," CBS News (retrieved 27 June 2015):
      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."
    • 2009 March 28, Dina Kraft, "British war hero to be investigated again for murder of Jewish 'terrorist' ↗," Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 27 June 2015):
      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."
    • 2012 June 23, Waylon Johnston, "Cleared of setting up theft scenario ↗," Times of Malta (retrieved 27 June 2015):
      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.
    • 2013 Apr. 3, Anurag Behar "RTE and the activity trap ↗," livemint.com (retrieved 27 June 2015):
      None of this is a sham: it is not a put-up show for us.
Noun

put-up

  1. Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone or to advance one's own interests.
    • 2012 Apr. 25, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131103191902/http://www.fitsnews.com/2012/04/25/no-girls-gone-wild-in-washington/ No Girls Gone Wild in Washington?]," fitsnews.com (retrieved 27 June 2015):
      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.
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