Definition of "red-baiting" [red-baiting]

• The practice of accusing someone of being a communist, socialist or anarchist with the intention of discrediting his or her political views (noun)

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• "I guess red-baiting is better than gay-baiting as long as you're doing it with Laughton chewing the scenery."
• "Beck's red-baiting of the rally was woven into some of the coverage."
• "And given that ER was politically active right up to her death, that Bobby was chiefly known as a red-baiting congressional aide before he became AG and that his eventually running for elective office was hardly unlikely it would not surprise me at all if somewhere in the ER papers there really is a note or letter expressing not unreasonable concern at the general idea."