kangaroo court in English

noun
1
an unofficial court held by a group of people in order to try someone regarded, especially without good evidence, as guilty of a crime or misdemeanor.
We have complained that it decides over important matters - the ownership of a domain name - but behaves more like a kangaroo court than a law court.

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1. It was like a kangaroo court, he thought.

2. The office looked like a kangaroo court.

3. Is this a newspaper office or a kangaroo court?

4. Saddam is to face a kangaroo court in Baghdad.

5. All the same, theirs was not a kangaroo court.

6. Matthew: I think this kangaroo court is a terrible idea, you moron.

7. He leads the reader into assuming that the tribunal is anything other than a kangaroo court.

8. It's grossly unfair for television to single out one player from one game and conduct a kangaroo court there and then.

9. The kangaroo court decided the punishment must fit the crime and ruled that he stay in his cell during the jailhouse comedy.

10. As the state-run news agency, Xinhua, put it, "You may find yourself up before a kangaroo court of angry netizens and receive a virtual lynching."

11. 12 The kangaroo court decided the punishment must fit the crime and ruled that he stay in his cell during the jailhouse comedy.

12. Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of the Arabic-language newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi, described the tribunal that delivered the verdict as a kangaroo court.