mccarthyism

1. 1.

   unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists)

   Broaderwitch-hunt

Other forms of mccarthyism

plural

mccarthyisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mccarthyism

What does mccarthyism mean?

mccarthyism means "unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists)".

How many syllables are in mccarthyism?

mccarthyism has 5 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /məˈkɑɹθiɪzəm/.