MCCARTHY

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• MCCARTHY (noun)
  The noun MCCARTHY has 2 senses:

1. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)

2. United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)

  Familiarity information: MCCARTHY used as a noun is rare.

• MCCARTHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Mary McCarthy; Mary Therese McCarthy; McCarthy

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Joseph McCarthy; Joseph Raymond McCarthy; McCarthy

Instance hypernyms:

pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)

 Context examples 

The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, the game-keeper, lost sight of them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Red Ike, Fighting Yussef, and Chris McCarthy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“O’Toole or McCarthy would suit your mug a damn sight better. Unless, very likely, there’s an Irishman in your mother’s woodpile.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all that he has suffered.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I nodded my head, but said, “We’ll all win back to San Francisco, Leach, and you’ll be with me when I go to see Matt McCarthy.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was Chris McCarthy growlin’ at them for not keepin’ their tongues still, and there was Joe Berks swearin’ that ’e would knock ’is face in if ’e dared give ’im any of ’is lip.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

McCarthy had one son, a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same age, but neither of them had wives living.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If it’s yer luck to ever make ’Frisco once more, will you hunt up Matt McCarthy?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was Red Ike, ’im that was warned off the ring ’cause ’e fought a cross with Bittoon; and there was Fightin’ Yussef, who would sell ’is mother for a seven-shillin’-bit; the third was Chris McCarthy, who is a fogle-snatcher by trade, with a pitch outside the ’Aymarket Theatre.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in favour of it.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)