witch-hunt

To-night ye will see. It is the great witch-hunt, and many will be smelt out as wizards and slain.

Rank-and-file Communists everywhere are led away on a senseless witch-hunt after 'Trotskyists'.

Even fewer people could believe that the UNCW administration would actually undertake a witch hunt against me, even going so far as to invoke their right to read my personal e-mails because they were on the university's system.