The antagonist is simultaneously a strawman for everything the author hates and the most likeable character by several orders of magnitude.
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Strawman
Synonyms for "strawman" (14 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (4)
Noun(4 words)
Related words (7)
Noun(7 words)
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More general
15 entriesadult maleconceptual modelcorporate concealmenteffigyfigureheadfrontfronting arrangementillustrative exampleimagelogical fallacymannominal headrhetorical devicesimulacrumspecious argument
More specific
8 entriesdistorted summaryfront companynominal owneroversimplified renderingstraw man argumentstraw man versionstrawman modelstrawman scenario
Collocations
11 entriesstraw man argumentstraw man devicestraw man fallacystraw man proposalstraw man representationstraw man tacticstrawman argumentstrawman critiquestrawman fallacystrawman positionstrawman scenario
Inflections
1 entriesstraw men
Derivations
2 entriesstraw manstraw-man
Sample sentences
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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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