Illustration: In a Japanese apartment, a would-be wildlife photographer dangles a homemade lake monster above a shallow roasting tray with fishing line. Their camera is positioned so the tray edges and supporting hand disappear from the photograph.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

捏ねつ造ぞう

netsuzou

to fabricate, to falsify

Example sentences

  1. しかし、番組ばんぐみで紹介しょうかいされたデータは捏造ねつぞうだったことが後のちに判明はんめいした。

    However, it was later revealed that the data introduced in the program was a fabrication.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 証拠しょうこを捏造ねつぞうする

    to fabricate evidence

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. これって捏造ねつぞうなの？

    Is this a hoax?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 捏造

  • 捏knead; mixOnネツ・テツ・ネチKunこねる・ねる・つくねる
  • 造create; makeOnゾウKunつくる・つくり

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