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n. - Unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists).

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  • McCarthy liked to say that the Communist Party invented the term McCarthyism, which he, of course, flaunted in his usual egotistical way.
  • "McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled."
  • Back in the United States, McCarthyism is at its height.
  • Sounds like McCarthyism is still alive and well in the ol 'US of A.
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