Meaning of show trial in English
(Definition of show trial from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of show trial
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It's a show trial, of course, which posits an unnerving coziness between church, state and a supposedly independent judiciary.
From Huffington Post
But when you do, even educated people think it was only that intense three-year period in the late 1930s with the show trials.
From Huffington Post
This is remarkably tone-deaf coming from a party that eliminated democracy and free speech, staged show trials, and routinely violated the most basic rights of the citizenry for 41 years.
From Foreign Policy
The solutions, including anti-profiteering campaigns, show trials, price controls, and the like managed to offend virtually every key group in society.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The book documents the show trials, imprisonments, and death sentences, as well as other punishments such as home destruction and eviction, meted out by the state.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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