It looked very much as if it had been fabricated.
"Fair and Warmer"
E. G. von Wald
Stories are usually fabricated after the event; but, if not true, they often truly paint a situation.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
And so they fabricated charges out of thin air and without element of truth whatsoever, against any man, provided he was rich.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett