No. 6,485 in Dutch
uitdeduimgezogen
Fabricated or made up without basis in reality.
In a sentence
Het verhaal dat hij vertelde, leek volledig uitdeduimgezogen.
The story he told seemed completely made up.
'Uitdeduimgezogen' here is used to describe something completely fabricated or imagined.
Ze beweerde dat de statistieken uitdeduimgezogen waren om de resultaten te ondersteunen.
She claimed that the statistics were fabricated to support the results.
In this context, 'uitdeduimgezogen' implies the falsification or invention of data.
De excuses die hij gaf, klonken nogal uitdeduimgezogen.
The excuses he gave sounded rather made-up.
Here, 'uitdeduimgezogen' conveys a sense of being unlikely or artificially constructed explanations.
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