Examples of 'straw man' in a sentence
Meaning of "straw man"
straw man - This phrase refers to a type of argument or debate tactic where an exaggerated or distorted version of an opponent's position is presented in order to make it easier to attack or refute.
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- A doll or scarecrow, particularly one stuffed with straw.
- An innocuous person or someone of nominal or lesser importance, as a front man or straw boss.
- An insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument, particularly one deliberately set up to be weakly supported, e.g. by misrepresenting an opponent's argument by broadening or narrowing the scope of a premise, so that it can be easily knocked down; especially to impugn the strength of any related or contrasted thing or idea.
- An outline serving as an initial proposal for a project, usually refined iteratively.
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Do not invent a straw man argument please.
Not to mention our liberal straw man.
I do not want to straw man her argument.
The straw man drinks his shadow.
The error of the straw man or scarecrow.
Libertarian opponents of anarchy are attacking a straw man.
Cute straw man you have there.
You took down the straw man.
Kill the straw man in your head.
Still arguing with the straw man.
He needed a straw man for the pill mill.
They are creating their own straw man.
This is a straw man that keeps getting repeated.
Let me put that straw man down.
A dummy purchaser is also sometimes called a straw man.
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This feels like a straw man fallacy.
I will complain to my poetry before that straw man.
To call this a straw man would be overly generous.
This seems like another straw man.
Oh what a straw man you have constructed.
Humbled you are setting up straw man arguments.
This is a straw man of your creation.
And just repeat the straw man.
This straw man was also burned some way back.
I am not constructing any sort of straw man.
Not his straw man.
I think you have created another straw man.
And the straw man.
If you were right then my whole video was a straw man.
Yet another straw man from the objectivist camp.
Not only does it sound like a straw man.
You have employed a straw man which is another fallacy.
You are also attacking a straw man.
That straw man has already been dealt with.
Everyone here is using straw man arguments.
A straw man is easier to attack.
Everything he has said is a straw man argument.
It is a straw man argument.
You took down a straw man.
The only straw man is the crap stuffing your head.
You are telling me you set up a straw man idea.
So you are discounting a straw man by using an unguarded term all.
But you are just like a straw man.
For a straw man.
Because this is also a straw man.
This is a combination of the straw man fallacy and the ad hominem argument.
So the authors are simply attacking a straw man here.
Matt set up a straw man and tore it down by confusing the concept.
They have created a straw man.
The straw man is placed in the arena during bullriding events as a safety measure.
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Thy belt of straw and ivy buds
Straw or other nesting material should be provided
Go look under the straw in the stable
Examples of using Man
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Nothing destroys a man as ignorance and conformity
Man we are looking for has muddy boots
But the old man is also illiterate
