lynch mob
a crowd of people without legal authority who are intent on putting someone to death for an alleged offense: The city was once a real frontier town of gunslingers, lynch mobs, and vigilante justice.African Americans were regularly attacked by white lynch mobs if they "stepped out of line."
a group of people who publicly accuse and attack someone in a vicious way in an effort to destroy their reputation: After his controversial ruling, the judge was the victim of a lynch mob on social media.
Also lynch-mob . relating to or characteristic or reminiscent of a group of people trying to destroy someone’s reputation or kill someone without legal authority: There was a lynch mob mentality coming out in a number of the posts, so the moderator shut down the thread.The basic facts of the incident were lost in the lynch-mob atmosphere that prevailed on campus.
lynch-mob . (of a group) to publicly accuse and attack someone in a vicious way in an effort to destroy their reputation: Let's try to be fair and not lynch-mob the whole video gaming industry over this one bad outcome.
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How to use lynch mob in a sentence
Media attacks and the whole lynch-mob mentality seem to go along with our trials these days.
Phil Spector’s Jersey Girl Lawyer: Meet the Real Linda Kenney Baden | Lloyd Grove | March 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAccounts from reporters of the mood in the newsroom ranged from “lynch mob” to “stunned silence.”
While Twitter can uphold standards, it can also enforce a new kind of uniformity, particularly when it goes into lynch mob mode.
Abrams said the White House had joined an anti-Israeli “lynch mob.”
I'm not going to quit a job that people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob.
You're a respectable-looking duck; you ever have any experience leading a lynch mob?
Four-Day Planet | Henry Beam PiperCould it be that city officials were working hand in glove with the lynch mob?
The Centralia Conspiracy | Ralph Chaplin
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