Example sentences for: mccarthyism

How can you use “mccarthyism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A NYT Week in Review article examines the legitimacy of McCarthyism in light of information recently recovered from Soviet records.

  • Ranking Democrat John Glenn, D-Ohio, indirectly accused Thompson of McCarthyism and upstaged him by announcing an offer from John Huang to testify in exchange for partial immunity.

  • Perhaps it's because the whole irrational frenzy burst through our door and no newspaper's half-baked insinuating detail passed me by that I think of the McCarthy era as inaugurating the postwar triumph of gossip, as the beginning not just of serious politics but of serious everything as entertainment to amuse the mass audience: McCarthyism as the first postwar flowering of the American unthinking that is now everywhere.

  • Aspects of American life that Brokaw deplores, such as segregation and McCarthyism, are viewed as part of the wallpaper.

  • Acheson had given an M-C-1 to Adlai's designation of McCarthyism before the press club as a "hysterical form of putrid slander" and as "one of the most unwholesome manifestations of our current disorder."


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