Wiktionary
witch-hunts
n. (plural of witch-hunt English)
Usage examples of "witch-hunts".
One of those who'd vanished in the witch-hunts then had been his betrothed.
To do something about Petissanji, who would continue to goad Abendar into witch-hunts with or without Thainn's help.
The witch-hunts often targeted social or gender deviants, particularly women who didn't comply with accepted female roles.
And in later years, when the insanity of witch-hunts was all the rage in western Europe, there were none in Poland.
Senator Joe McCarthy’s anti-communist witch-hunts of the early 1950s seemed to confirm that what the post-war world wanted most was freedom from social upheaval.