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- noun Plural form of
McCarthyite .
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Examples
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"McCarthyites" in an effort to marginalize their testimony and to make sure additional witnesses would not testify or submit written affidavits against Bob Gates.
Consortiumnews.com 2009
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The unidentified writer must have figured that the "ultra-right, racist, anti-working-class" "McCarthyites" and "Zionist witch-hunters" were too preoccupied bashing the chosen one, to notice his diatribe attacking the good work of the CUNY Trustees, who remarkably turned the fallen system around to its former world class status and the higher academic standards it once boasted.
Democracy Project 2008
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Former Bill Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis is about as anti-progressive as you can get and still be a Democrat — here’s Davis in 2006 calling liberal opponents of Sen. Joe Lieberman "McCarthyites" on the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal — and yet, via Greg Sargent, even this bastion of bipartisan establishmentarianism thinks it’s time to indict Dick Cheney:
Lanny Frigging Davis Says To Indict Cheney For Torture | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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Was anybody else aware that there were so many McCarthyites in Texas this whole time?
Think Progress » Right-wing Texas Education Board accidentally bans popular children’s book author. 2010
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She describes those who, like me, campaign for the protection of gay people as "bullies," as "totalitarian" and as "McCarthyites."
Patrick Strudwick: Why We Can't Stand Idly By as the Church of England Newspaper Calls Us Nazis Patrick Strudwick 2011
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In other words, we have an exemplary instance of McCarthyites gulling the naive, just as the infamous senator from Wisconsin liked to do.
About This Site 2009
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In the atmosphere of the evening — to judge by Mr. Nozick's account — Mr. Radosh and Ms. Milton were made to play the role of villain, McCarthyites masquerading as historians, to be mau-maued by New York's beau monde.
The Defense Michael C. Moynihan 2010
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Their friend Teddy White had also had his passport taken away the previous summer after the McCarthyites branded him a subversive, and he had been forced to hire a lawyer and battle the State Department to get it back.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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She describes those who, like me, campaign for the protection of gay people as "bullies," as "totalitarian" and as "McCarthyites."
Patrick Strudwick: Why We Can't Stand Idly By as the Church of England Newspaper Calls Us Nazis Patrick Strudwick 2011
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She describes those who, like me, campaign for the protection of gay people as "bullies," as "totalitarian" and as "McCarthyites."
Patrick Strudwick: Why We Can't Stand Idly By as the Church of England Newspaper Calls Us Nazis Patrick Strudwick 2011
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