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View definitions for lynch mob

lynch mob

noun as in posse

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Like the convenor of a lynch mob, Trump’s dark power is fueled by an alchemy that makes people feel bigger and bolder unified in the hate that energizes and defines them.

From Salon

Social media footage of the lynch mob showed police looking on as a woman locals believed to be responsible was brutally attacked.

From BBC

“What’s really disturbing and alarming is that Aldean’s lynch mob anthem about murdering protesters and people who burn the American flag went to the top of the music charts this summer.”

With the shoeshine under arrest, a Black militia gathered at a local jail to prevent a lynch mob from kidnapping and murdering him.

The archdiocese received a complaint alleging that the priest had fomented “a lynch mob mentality.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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