witch hunt
witch hunt
noun
an intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.
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| witch-hunt | |
| —n | |
| a rigorous campaign to round up or expose dissenters on the pretext of safeguarding the welfare of the public | |
| 'witch-hunter | |
| —n | |
| 'witch-hunting | |
| —n, —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
witch hunt
1640 in the literal sense; the extended sense is attested from 1932 (in witch-hunting), popularized in Cold War anti-Communist hysteria.
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