noun
an intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight or doubtful evidence
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The investigation turned out to be nothing more than a witch hunt with no evidence of wrongdoing.
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Everyone knows that the audit is just a witch hunt to try and find something wrong.
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The whole thing is just a witch hunt to make someone look bad.
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The media's constant scrutiny of the celebrity's personal life felt like a witch hunt.