mccarthyism
Meaning of mccarthyism
noun
a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–4. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, though most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party.
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Hyphenation of mccarthyism
mc-carthy-ism
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