Usually means: Fear-driven political witch hunt.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. mccarthyism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. McCarthyism: Merriam-Webster
  3. McCarthyism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. McCarthyism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. McCarthyism: Collins English Dictionary
  6. McCarthyism: Vocabulary.com
  7. McCarthyism, Mccarthyism, mccarthyism: Wordnik
  8. McCarthyism, mccarthyism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. McCarthyism: Wiktionary
  10. McCarthyism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. McCarthyism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. McCarthyism: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. McCarthyism: Dictionary.com
  14. McCarthyism: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. McCarthyism, Mccarthyism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mccarthyism: Rhymezone
  17. mccarthyism: FreeDictionary.org
  18. mccarthyism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. McCarthyism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. McCarthyism: Merriam-Webster

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  1. McCarthyism: bizterms.net

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  1. McCarthyism: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. mccarthyism: A Word A Day

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  1. McCarthyism: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mccarthyite as well.)

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▸ noun:  (derogatory) The mass pressure, harassment, and/or blacklisting used to pressure people to follow popular political beliefs, especially as opposed to communism.
▸ noun:  The intense opposition to, and fear and suspicion of, Communism, particularly in the United States during the 1950s.

Similar:
neo-McCarthyism, Second Red Scare, political correctness, communism, moral panic, red scare, Red Terror, brain-washing, multiculturalism, cultural Marxism, more...

Opposite:
anti-communism, liberalism, progressivism

Types:
witch hunt, loyalty oaths, blacklisting, smear campaigns, false accusations, more...

Phrases:
neo mccarthyism, more...

Adjectives:
new, sexual, anti, wing, intellectual, style, moral, academic, neo, rampant, old
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Similar:
neo-McCarthyism, Second Red Scare, political correctness, communism, moral panic, red scare, Red Terror, brain-washing, multiculturalism, cultural Marxism, more...

Opposite:
anti-communism, liberalism, progressivism

Types:
witch hunt, loyalty oaths, blacklisting, smear campaigns, false accusations, more...

Phrases:
neo mccarthyism, more...

Adjectives:
new, sexual, anti, wing, intellectual, style, moral, academic, neo, rampant, old



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