凭空捏造

憑空捏造

píngkōng-niēzào

idiom #35,710

Meanings

1 to fabricate out of thin air
2 to make up baselessly
3 to frame someone with invented charges

Characters

to pinch / mold

to make / fabricate

Examples

HSK 2

这些指控完全是凭空捏造的。

Zhèxiē zhǐkòng wánquán shì píngkōngniēzào de.

These accusations were completely fabricated out of thin air.

HSK 3

记者不应该凭空捏造事实。

Jìzhě bù yīnggāi píngkōngniēzào shìshí.

Journalists should not fabricate facts out of nothing.

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history

Recorded in Shen Defu's Ming-dynasty 《万历野获编补遗》 (Supplement to Wanli Wild Gleanings), where it described corrupt forgers who invented hereditary land claims to bribe the Ministry of War.

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