单词 | red-baiter |
释义 | red-baitern. Originally U.S. A person who engages in red-baiting. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > persecution > one who > suspected communists red-baiter1927 1927 N.Y. Times 19 Mar. 16/5 Hence the firmness with which they make their demands on him, and the bitterness of Comrade Borodin among the Cantonese advisers, in realizing that his wife is in a sense a hostage in the hands of this Chinese Red-baiter. 1929 Nation 2 Oct. 343/1 Red-Baiters... Mr. Woll and his underlings have become..obsessed with an anti-Communist spirit. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Jan. 89/1 Professor Nove may be in danger of incurring from some of our red-baiters the ludicrously unjustifiable charge of being an apologist for Stalin. 2000 Cinema Jrnl. 39 ii. 26 Both Thomas and fellow Red-baiter (ex-) Congressman Andrew May..were paroled after serving less than a year behind bars. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1927 |
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