How to Use McCarthyism in a Sentence

McCarthyism

noun

• Released last year, the film explores the meaning of moral courage in the 1950s, when the U.S. was in the grip of McCarthyism.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2023
• The book did represent a change, a somewhat softer brand of McCarthyism.
  — John Williams, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• Politics, which play a large part in the original — and in nearly all of Mallon’s books — are here stripped down to the greatest hits of McCarthyism.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• His role model was Paul Robeson, the singer, actor and activist whose career was derailed by McCarthyism.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2023
• Likewise, the delusional paranoia provoked by McCarthyism was the basis for Cold War aggression.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• Ever since, historians have regarded him as the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism.
  — Kai Bird, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
• The true horror of Kaufman's Invasion, though, is that acquiescence gives way to McCarthyism; in conformity, old friends become new enemies.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
• It was always taught in a historical sense—the book-burning Nazis, the war propaganda, McCarthyism—something our professional forebears had battled before and firmly defeated.
  — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024