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“I regarded the whole thing as a fabrication, a hoax, a put up job,” he wrote in May 1983.

For 'twas all, sir, a put-up job on a pore young man like me; And the jury was bribed a puppos, and aftdrst they couldn't agree.

"Why, can't you see this warrant is a put-up job," Charley exclaimed impatiently.

It was all a put-up job to get me out, and that Matson lad in.

Of course he was one of the gang, and his fall was a put-up job to get Will out of the way.

He had been intensely interested in the Arab's tale, and the thought that it was a put-up job did not appeal to him in the least.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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