witch-hunt
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- noun
- /ˈwɪtʃˌhʌnt/
- Literature
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caza de brujas
- The investigation quickly turned into a witch-hunt against anyone who opposed the new policy.
- communist witch-hunt
- anti-communist witch-hunt
- contemporary witch-hunt
No, in the Salem witch hunts, they always found them guilty.
- No, in the Salem witch hunts, they always found them guilty.
- As well as achieving the practical aims of colonization, witch hunts also tried to justify it.
- Or is this, as we've said or have heard, a political witch hunt?
- Then go right into look, we all know this has been nothing other than a witch hunt.
- They will instead blame you for being paranoid or call it a smear campaign or a witch hunt.
- Which is grandly ironic because the folks who are so willing to launch a smear campaign against you will call it a witch hunt when things start falling apart for them.
- And I think, I think Andrew and his brother Tristan have been subjected to a despicable witch hunt, actually.
- But the actual history and philosophy of the witch hunts is far more fascinating and disturbingly relevant today.
- Then you have things like witch hunts, Salem witch trials and and the spreading of the idea of searching for witches.
- Would vampire stories or stories about witch hunts fall into the fairy tale realm or no, because some of that is actually based on history.
- And I think this country loves the witch hunt and burn the witch.
- It sounds really that sounds witch hunt, witch hunt, witch hunt.
- And I, I saw this like, you know, purity spiral, witch hunt, lambastor.
Examples
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So at that point, that is when this very obvious witch hunt against me began.
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This is turning into a witch hunt!
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The potential for a witch hunt was there, and it long continued.
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This is a witch hunt, Dave.
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The producers know this, which is why they are on a witch hunt to get me.
Blog text (17) -
Just like after Pearl Harbor, the witch hunt will begin.
Fiction book (1994) -
It was a witch hunt.
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The prospect of a witch-hunt already has the national elite on edge.
Academic text (1999) -
However, the witch-hunt against writers and artists was not confined to Egypt.
Academic text (2005) -
The media coverage convinced many that the informers, not their targets, were the victims of a witch-hunt.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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Cruel, unfair treatment of people because of their race, religion, or beliefs
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An organized effort to hurt someone's reputation by making false or unfair accusations
Antonyms
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Etymology
Witch-hunt comes from times when people hunted witches, who were thought to have 'magic powers' and were blamed for bad events without real proof. So today a witch-hunt means a campaign to chase and punish people unfairly, often for their beliefs or opinions.