witch hunt
猎杀女巫,追捕女巫,猎巫,猎巫行动
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- : the investigation, trial, and punishment of alleged practitioners of witchcraft.
- : an intensive inquiry, originally or purportedly to discover and expose dishonesty, subversion, or other wrongdoing, the scope and conclusions of which often include and bring harm to innocent persons or their reputations through reliance on hearsay or circumstantial evidence.
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witch-hunt
- : to subject to a witch hunt:The defendant claimed he was being witch-hunted due to his political activism.
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Now, they can chalk the whole thing up to a partisan witch hunt and discredit it.
Some of the threats are likely from Netanyahu’s supporters who believe he is the victim of a political-legal witch hunt.
Agnew complained in public that it was a witch hunt, part of a liberal-media plot to destroy a leader who had dared to take on the political establishment.
This is a big, big beginning to the end of what has been a witch hunt.
The kid from next door drops by and Marvin talks to him about the stunts in his latest film, Death Hunt.
The Federal Duck Stamp Act raised the fee on stamps needed to hunt waterfowl on federal land from $15 to $25.
He once experimented with dressing as “Hilda the Wicked Witch” as a way to expand his business to Halloween.
Jordanian intelligence played an important role in the hunt that eventually killed Zarqawi in Iraq in 2006.
Breitbart forced her to correct a small part of her story, but witch hunts like these will leave every victim cowering.
Mrs. Jolly Robin had often wished—when she was trying to feed a rapidly-growing family—that she could hunt forp.
When the whole hunt is hunting up, each single change is made between the whole hunt, and the next bell above it.
With these ten Hunts, the first change in each Peal is made by hunting the whole Hunt up.
This Peal (by the Rules aforesaid) may be Rang with any whole hunt, half hunt, and quarter hunt.