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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.