"McCarthyesque" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2009, W. C. Harris, Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture, State University of New York Press, page 94",
          "text": "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, […]",
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          "ref": "2011, Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human, Spiegel & Grau, page 131",
          "text": "On one side were the vile, shape-shifting Skrulls, who wanted to enslave us, prompting McCarthyesque witch hunts and a disbanding of the Avengers.",
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          "ref": "2011, Barna William Donovan, Conspiracy Films: A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious, McFarland & Company, page 70",
          "text": "Once Shaw returns home, his battlefield exploits are quickly taken advantage of by Iselin, a hard-line McCarthyesque anti-communist crusader.",
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        "Characteristic of McCarthyism or McCarthyists."
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          "text": "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, […]",
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          "ref": "2011, Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human, Spiegel & Grau, page 131",
          "text": "On one side were the vile, shape-shifting Skrulls, who wanted to enslave us, prompting McCarthyesque witch hunts and a disbanding of the Avengers.",
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          "text": "Once Shaw returns home, his battlefield exploits are quickly taken advantage of by Iselin, a hard-line McCarthyesque anti-communist crusader.",
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