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  • noun Plural form of McCarthyism.

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Examples

  • But then racism may be the last refuge of a bunch of discredit journalists/leftists who are forced to pen racial McCarthyisms when they lack substance.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • Until then, they kept saying, in one of my favorite McCarthyisms, that they had to "evaluate."

    Express Milwaukee 2009

  • "Another letter from Brent McCarthy, it is just like all the others full of McCarthyisms.

    unknown title 2009

  • People, please don't listen to the McCarthyisms and call your congress people and tell them to vote to expand on Medicare for everyone. "

    unknown title 2009

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