straw man
Example Sentences
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“There’s the straw man of, ‘Well, it failed at this one thing, therefore it’s all stupid.’”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
It’s just a straw man that Oldham dreamed up to defend ghost gun buyers—whom he depicted, with a straight face, as noble, “law-abiding” gunsmiths partaking in a grand American “tradition of self-made arms.”
From Slate • Oct. 8, 2024
"It's a straw man, it's a boogie monster, it's not really a real thing, so they make up stories," she said.
From Reuters • Feb. 23, 2023
To the contrary, critics have been habitually dismissed as attacking a "straw man," or of putting forward their critiques in "bad faith."
From Salon • Nov. 20, 2022
He looked a straw man set out to announce some holiday.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
