01 prop. n. Unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists).
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Unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists).
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Webster, 1913
McCarthyism
· IPA /məˈkɑɹ.θi.ɪzəm/