straw man

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straw man 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
  2. a person whose importance or function is only nominal, as to cover another's activities; front.
  3. a fabricated or conveniently weak or innocuous person, object, matter, etc., used as a seeming adversary or argument: The issue she railed about was no more than a straw man.

straw man 近义词

n. 名词 noun

coverup person

更多straw man例句

  1. It is, instead, a straw man that Rufo and his allies have constructed, leveraging anecdotes and incidents in a way that’s strikingly similar to the effort to prove that the 2020 election was somehow stolen.
  2. He just needs to construct a straw man onto which he slaps that label and watch the politics fall into place.
  3. Fauci also told Paul there’s no possibility the research in the paper Paul cited directly led to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but Paul correctly called this out as a straw man.
  4. “Foreign buyers are a bit of a straw man because sometimes they’re blamed for the ups, and sometimes they’re blamed for the downs,” Walkup says.
  5. In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
  6. That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.
  7. It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
  8. But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.
  9. He looks like a man who should have had kids, but now never will.
  10. Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
  11. The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
  12. The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
  13. He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
  14. On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.