Example Sentences

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A future government enforces loyalty with a group of telepathic mutants called “teeps,” who also pursue their own McCarthyite agenda.

From The Verge • Jan. 16, 2018

Her opposition to what she saw as potentially McCarthyite government intrusion into citizens’ privacy earned her a Ms. Woman of the Year distinction in 2003.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017

New York Times theater critic Brooks Atkinson praised her “fire and skill” in the powerful Miller morality play that many have read as an allegory against the McCarthyite anti-communist witch hunts of the day.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2016

I mean, yes, McCarthyite in the sense that it’s guilt by association.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2016

Although some think the writers were rebelling against a soulless, suburban McCarthyite America, Hopkins says it was more straightforward.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2014