cook the books
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.53 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
verb
To falsify an account of an event.
Example Sentences
- "Enron Corp., once a major U.S. corporation, is now famous for cooking the books."
- "Those that cooked the books and presented them with bias minds; They sugar-coated the stories; and twisted and exaggerated events"
- "Two years after he received his piece of the Nobel Prize, Mann was drawn into controversy over a series of e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom that some climate change skeptics charged provided proof that Mann and his fellow scientists were cooking the books on climate, though for what reason, the skeptics never made clear."
- "One does suspect that the authors of Numbers cooked the books a bit to make the more important and respected tribes (Judah, for instance) look good with higher population numbers."