frame-up

• Substantif désignant un complot ou une manœuvre visant à faire passer une personne innocente pour coupable d'un crime ou d'une infraction, au moyen de fausses preuves ou de tromperies.

A noun referring to a scheme or act intended to make an innocent person appear guilty of a crime or wrongdoing through false evidence or deception.

1. False accusation schemeB2informal

   A planned act of making an innocent person appear guilty of a crime by providing false evidence or testimony.

   Complot visant à faire accuser un innocent

   • The detective realized the evidence was part of a frame-up.
   • He spent years in prison because of a frame-up by his rivals.
   • The trial revealed that the entire case was a frame-up.

   Synonymesframesetup