How to Use kangaroo court in a Sentence

kangaroo court

noun

• The kangaroo court fees would have been off the charts.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
• Then it was blasted at kangaroo court on a huge screen.
  — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2022
• Outside the sidewalk, Jones called the trial a kangaroo court and Bellis a tyrant.
  — Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2022
• If the Blue Jays have a kangaroo court, somebody on the grounds crew has to be fined for having a baseline as true as a Roberto Clemente throw from right field to the hot corner.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2022
• Bill’s hearing the next day is precisely the kangaroo court Ji-Yoon foretold.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2021
• The opposition leader could face more than a decade in prison if convicted by the kangaroo court.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2022
• Failure to participate would result in a $500 fine from the club’s kangaroo court, over which, of course, Beltrán presided.
  — Ben Reiter, SI.com, 9 July 2018
• Emi is placed on trial in an outdoor kangaroo court where she is confronted by her students’ parents, their faces masked and their fangs bared.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• But a typically brutal schedule packs a punch that Auburn’s kangaroo court didn’t land.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
• That culture again includes accountability and the return of the kangaroo court fine system for mistakes in spring training.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• Wochit The 1988 University of Kentucky baseball team had a kangaroo court.
  — Jake Lourim, The Courier-Journal, 27 Mar. 2018
• Faced with this, Republicans have been left making endless arguments about an unfair process, calling it a sham, a star chamber, a kangaroo court.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2019
• If POWs are allegedly culpable of war crimes, than they are entitled a fair, non-kangaroo court trial with due process to ascertain guilt or innocence.
  — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• Not broadcasting the hearing sends a message to loyal Fox viewers, media observers said: The network won’t help legitimize a process that many conservatives see as a kangaroo court.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• In a succession of bombastic press conferences on the sidewalk outside the Waterbury courthouse Jones condemned the default as a revocation of the first amendment, called the trial a kangaroo court and said Bellis is a tyrant.
  — Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2022
• Eventually, Tyra graduated from kangaroo court sergeant and minigame connoisseur to the business world.
  — Jake Lourim, The Courier-Journal, 27 Mar. 2018
• The personal-conduct policy as a whole should be put into a giant drill that burrows into the Earth’s crust then left there for eternity; there is no place for a sports league’s kangaroo court in our nation’s criminal justice system.
  — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• Their defenses of campus kangaroo courts are rife with transparently bad statistics.
  — David French, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
• The Red Goose apparently didn't fly often enough or with enough gusto to protect Williams from his propensity for writing bad checks to local eating establishments, whose complaints compounded his problems with the fraternity's kangaroo court.
  — Greg Garrison, AL.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Many institutions, often small colleges with limited resources, are now engulfed in lawsuits flowing, again unsurprisingly, from these kangaroo courts.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
• Many conservative commentators, understandably alarmed by the Obama administration’s presumption of guilt and kangaroo courts, have overstressed this aspect of the campus rape problem.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 15 Sep. 2017
• Next week’s hearing, as currently contemplated, will be a kangaroo court, because the Republicans have done everything in their power to prevent the consideration of any outside evidence, whether corroborating or exculpatory.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024