McCarthyite
adjective usually disapproving uk/məˈkɑː.θi.aɪt/ us/məˈkɑːr.θi.aɪt/ (also McCarthyist, /məˈkɑː.θi.ɪst/ /məˈkɑːr.θi.ɪst/)
麦卡锡主义的，指1950年代在美国指控某人为共产党人的做法，往往使对方因此失业或有时受到囚禁，现亦指用相同手段公开指责某人，致使对方受排斥或不被信任
relating to a practice in the US in the 1950s of accusing someone of being a Communist, which often led to that person losing their job or sometimes being put in prison; involving a practice similar to this in which someone is accused of being a particular thing and is avoided or not trusted because of this
He led a McCarthyite witch hunt against homosexuals. 他领导了一场针对同性恋的麦卡锡式的猎巫行动。
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- The McCarthyite hysteria that permits the anonymous smearing of public servants is truly a disgrace.
- I'm sick and tired of these McCarthyite tactics.
- The film caused waves at a time when the US was recovering from its McCarthyite anti-communist witch-hunts.
- He was a champion of McCarthyist Communist-hunting.
- There is something McCarthyite in hauling journalists before a panel asking them, in effect, "Are you now or have you ever been a racist?"
McCarthyite
noun [ C ] usually disapproving uk/məˈkɑː.θi.aɪt/ us/məˈkɑːr.θi.aɪt/ (also McCarthyist, /məˈkɑː.θi.ɪst/ /məˈkɑːr.θi.ɪst/)
麦卡锡主义者，麦卡锡分子：指麦卡锡主义活动或类似活动的参与者，这种人指控他人具有左派亲共政治观点，使后者不被信任
someone who takes part in McCarthyite activities or similar activities against a group of people who are not trusted because of their views
In the US, he'd fallen foul of the McCarthyites. 在美国，他与麦卡锡主义者发生了冲突。
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- The McCarthyites could find communism anywhere.
- He was a stalwart McCarthyite but she was blacklisted for her left-wing views.
- In the 1940s and '50s, for example, McCarthyites purged virtually all the China experts from the State Department because they were insufficiently anti-communist.
- McCarthyites decried the work as "foreign, communistic and alien to American values."