Strawman

"Strawman" in a Sentence (2 examples)

The antagonist is simultaneously a strawman for everything the author hates and the most likeable character by several orders of magnitude.

We are also charged with strawmanning Type la. This is 'boomerang misrepresentation' - a disingenuous tactic deployed by writers in an effort to establish the superiority of their own work when all they are really doing is simply repeating

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