Examples of 'witch-hunt' in a sentence
Meaning of "witch-hunt"
Witch-hunt: a campaign or search for perceived enemies or wrongdoing, often conducted with zeal and without regard for evidence. This term has historical connotations related to the persecution of individuals accused of witchcraft
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- A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them.
- An attempt to find and punish or harass a group of people perceived as a threat, usually on ideological or political grounds.
- A public or political campaign or investigation which smears a person or group.
- To perform a witch-hunt.
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It was a witch-hunt to find out who was talking to me.
This here is a standard witch-hunt package.
Abuse witch-hunt traps innocent in a net of lies.
Then the whole neighborhood went on a witch-hunt.
Is it seems to me there is a witch-hunt sort of hysterical mentality.
We are not turning this into a witch-hunt.
A witch-hunt design to appeal to our worst instincts.
Attack sparks memories of McCarthy witch-hunt.
You started a witch-hunt and we might be the witches.
They claim it is not a political witch-hunt.
This witch-hunt is not going to expose anything but you.
The media is really on a witch-hunt against me.
It was a witch-hunt to overturn an election.
Of either being ineffective or being a witch-hunt.
A witch-hunt is a search for suspected witch or evidence of witchcraft.
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I would hate to think this was some witch-hunt.
There is also a witch-hunt at the moment with people saying.
The sole motivation of this hysterical witch-hunt.
This will be nothing but a witch-hunt against militant workers.
This has the unpleasant odour of a witch-hunt.
Regarding your witch-hunt into legal businesses in the gold coast.
I have seen this kind of witch-hunt before.
Witch-hunt fervour is at its height and people have already died.
I thought those slashings was a little girl playing witch-hunt.
Make it clear that this is not a witch-hunt against specific companies.
I was hoping we could get a diagnosis before the witch-hunt.
The campaign against the veil is a witch-hunt that must be opposed.
They have rejected the allegations as a political witch-hunt.
My son 's innocence stained to bring this witch-hunt to a smug and a satisfactory close.
I hope you are not starting some kind of witch-hunt.
He expected to be able to run a witch-hunt against the growing political military opposition.
Other powerful figures also encouraged the witch-hunt.
At the same time a witch-hunt has been declared by the majority of corporate media.
The pressures being exerted by this reactionary witch-hunt are enormous.
The ongoing witch-hunt led to the illegal shut own of thousands of civic organizations.
The problem is to move from there to a witch-hunt continues.
Witch-hunt begun, creating mass hysteria and the image of the country threaten by terrorism.
They say the fifth was killed during the witch-hunt.
He has called the investigation a political witch-hunt and repeatedly called for it to be ended.
And our young brother was hurt during their witch-hunt.
The witch-hunt reversed the power relation between the devil and the witch.
This pretty simple case has turned into a witch-hunt.
Today 's witch-hunt on those who oppose the war echo the policies of recent years.
I can not waste any more of our resources on a witch-hunt.
Tenants refused to pay rents and a witch-hunt against the company and the municipality was pursued.
Liberals fought the noble fight against that witch-hunt.
It is NOT to initiate a witch-hunt or to apportion blame.
Every single pledge reeks of authoritarianism in pursuit of a filthy witch-hunt.
He was a victim of discrimination and of a police witch-hunt that was aided by the judge.
I do not wish to get into numbers because it immediately turns into a witch-hunt.
