Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun straw_man

3 senses of straw man

Sense 1
front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman -- (a person used as a cover for some questionable activity)
       => deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker -- (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)

Sense 2
straw man, strawman -- (a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted)
       => specious argument -- (an argument that appears good at first view but is really fallacious)

Sense 3
scarecrow, straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer -- (an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds)
       => effigy, image, simulacrum -- (a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone")