Usage of "witch-hunt"

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Search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, or mass hysteria.

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Formal case investigation of a person that is accused of witchcraft.

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Usage of witch-hunt in English

Now Sun journalists believe he has launched a witch-hunt to protect himself. 
 Reuters 

Have there been any attempts to bring Spiritualism into the great witch-hunt? 
 The Meaning of Witchcraft 

There is indeed a witch-hunt in this country against the Catholic Church. 
 The Irish Times 

This is not a modern day witch-hunt but a petition for justice. 
 The Guardian 

But it is in danger of fuelling a disturbing modern-day literary witch-hunt. 
 The Irish Times 

He denies wrongdoing and says he is the victim of a witch-hunt. 
 Reuters 

But the Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has described the process as a witch-hunt. 
 Radio NZ 

They have repeatedly accused Kovesi of carrying out a political witch-hunt. 
 Reuters 

This has not been a fair trial but a media witch-hunt. 
 The South African 

It contends the inquiry is a political witch-hunt, engineered by Washington. 
 The Guardian 

It launched, in effect, a witch-hunt and encouraged its readers to join in. 
 The Guardian 

Every day I am subjected to a McCarthyite witch-hunt in this crumbling building. 
 A Confederacy of Dunces 

The opposition alleges that the inquiry was little more than a political witch-hunt. 
 Reuters 

We reject the allegation that these charges amount to a witch-hunt against him. 
 The South African 

The US army is defending its witches as critics go on a witch-hunt. 
 The Irish Times 

Trump has already denounced the whole business as a politically-inspired witch-hunt. 
 The Guardian 

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Meanings of witch-hunt in English