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- noun Alternative form of
witch-hunt .
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Examples
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I doubt a partisan hack engaging in a partisan witchhunt is going to allow cameras to follow his every move.
Think Progress » Partisan Witchhunt? Foreman of “Runaway” Grand Jury Praises DeLay 2005
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I doubt a partisan hack engaging in a partisan witchhunt is going to allow cameras to follow his every move.
Think Progress » Partisan Witchhunt? Foreman of “Runaway” Grand Jury Praises DeLay 2005
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I wanted this to go away or he wanted to stop what he had been calling a witchhunt being ...
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The Conservative Party on Thursday repeated its call for the extension of the amnesty cut-off date to May 10, 1994, saying this was the only way to bring an end to what it called the witchhunt against Afrikaners.
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The Conservative Party on Thursday repeated its call for the extension of the amnesty cut-off date to May 10, 1994, saying this was the only way to bring an end to what it called the witchhunt against Afrikaners.
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"The press set about what can only be described as a witchhunt."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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The church is getting it's act together, somewhat belatedly in some cases, and with what can only be described as a witchhunt snapping around the fringes.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Any resemblance Craig may have to a gay man is all due to the vicious "witchhunt" by the Idaho Statesman, a newspaper that apparently has undercover cops involved in its vast decades-long conspiracy to paint Larry Craig as a self-loathing gay man.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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If they want to, then fine, but the sort of witchhunt which is underway this morning is unedifying in the extreme.
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She said she did not want to be involved in any "witchhunt".
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