McCarthyesque

English Etymology From en McCarthy esque. Adjective - Characteristic of McCarthyism or McCarthyists. en 2009 W. C. Harris Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture http://books.google.com/books?id=xDXcthn7NMsC&pg=PA94&dq=%22mccarthyesque%22# 94 State University of New York Press 9781438427515 The equally absurd concept that there exists anything like a "homosexuality detection expert" conjures the McCarthyesque image of eyes from which no one can hide, en 2011 Grant Morrison Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human http://books.google.com/books?id=t9QJ6kyGZtsC&pg=PA131&dq=%22mccarthyesque+witch+hunts%22 131 Spiegel & Grau 9780812981384 On one side were the vile, shape-shifting Skrulls, who wanted to enslave us, prompting McCarthyesque witch hunts and a disbanding of the Avengers. en 2011 Barna William Donovan Conspiracy Films: A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious http://books.google.com/books?id=bJkhqU1IXHAC&pg=PA70&dq=%22mccarthyesque%22 70 McFarland & Company 9780786439010 Once Shaw returns home, his battlefield exploits are quickly taken advantage of by Iselin, a hard-line McCarthyesque anti-communist crusader. en eponyms