kangaroo court
Example Sentences
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It didn’t help that her husband—who’d known Hoxha when the two men were students together in Paris—was found guilty by a kangaroo court of plotting to overthrow the government.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
But Brig Kulayigye said the court martial "is not a kangaroo court".
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2024
Put another way, even those who are hauled before a kangaroo court are sometimes guilty as charged.
From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023
“Students of American history will now be able to read the last chapter and see that what was done to Oppenheimer in that kangaroo court proceeding was not the last word.”
From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022
Seems to me he did say—back there in the saloon, when he was holdin' kangaroo court.
From Prairie Flowers by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
