false suspicion

It would never do to cast false suspicion on someone.

False suspicions had been raised from innocent men.

Others, closer to recent events, still were baffled; that was because their minds were cluttered with false suspicions.

Now Madame Flaubert sounded almost petulant, a woman wronged by false suspicions.

False suspicions and accusations of crime are frequent plot elements, as are betrayals and double-crosses.

Clare phones the social services, and tells them her false suspicions that Tom is getting physically abused by Max and OB.

Laurence, forgive me for making so unpleasant a suggestion; I would not like to plant false suspicions in your head, but the possibility has been preying on me since you decided upon going.

The good old man buried quite alive, Near the great river through false suspicion: The new old man ennobled by riches, Captured on the road all his gold for ransom.

Sigismondo, who is in his private life jealous of his own wife for false suspicions and believes that Ernesto is a fool, is their friend and decides to help them.

This begins the Baron Von Rheingarten/James Dorr rivalry for Felicity's attentions, fueled in part by James' confronting her privately with his own false suspicions about an affair with Urban Mahy.

Nevertheless, in 602, the last Lakhmid king, Nu'man III, was put to death by the Sassanid king Khosrau II because of a false suspicion of treason, and the Lakhmid kingdom was annexed.

According to the DEA he is believed to have assisted in the transportation of two Americans, John Walker and Alberto Radelat, who were later killed by the cartel under the false suspicion they were DEA agents.

Returning to Vienna in 1819, he was arrested there after the murder of August von Kotzebue by Karl Ludwig Sand on the false suspicion of belonging to a Swiss political society and was expelled form the city in 1820.

By 926, the Later Tang realm was engulfed in various mutinies against Li Cunxu, partly caused by a famine and partly caused by the army's discontent after Li Cunxu killed Guo and Zhu Youqian on false suspicions of treason.

Researchers Poole and Lindsay suggested in 1997 applying separate labels to the two concepts, proposing the term "false allegations" be used specifically when the accuser is aware they are lying, and "false suspicions" (weasel word phrase; dissimulation) for the wider range of false accusations in which suggestive questioning may have been involved.