Associations to the word «Mccarthyism»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
MCCARTHYISM, noun. (pejorative) The mass pressure, harassment, and/or blacklisting used to pressure people to follow popular political beliefs.
MCCARTHYISM, proper noun. The intense opposition, countering, fear and/or suspicion of Communism, particularly in the United States during the 1950s.
Dictionary definition
MCCARTHYISM, noun. Unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists).
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.