variants
often Red-bait
red-baited; red-baiting; red-baits
: to subject (a person or group) to red-baiting
: to engage in red-baiting
red-baiter
noun
often Red-baiter
Examples of red-bait in a Sentence
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An early scene in A Complete Unknown depicts the zeitgeist shift from the red-baiting McCarthy era to the open air of JFK’s New Frontier.
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Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
So there was a version of red-baiting going on by the pro-privatization crowd.
—John Surico, Curbed, 18 Feb. 2025
Four years later, the Bronx Democratic machine set out to vanquish Gerena-Valentin by gerrymandering his apartment out of the district and red-baiting him.
—Cary Goodman, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2025
Steel’s campaign did not expand on the red-baiting accusations, but pointed to a previous letter to Tran that condemned his accusations that Steel wasn’t a refugee and didn’t flee communism.
—Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 27 Nov. 2024
Jurado won despite De León — a former political giant whose reputation went under like the Titanic after his role in the 2022 City Hall audio leak scandal — and his acolytes running a red-baiting campaign against his opponent straight outta 1934.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Still, the whitewashing of Reagan’s red-baiting remains the movie’s defining sin, and a testament to how any sense of portraiture is swamped by the petty desire to win a one-sided debate.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2024
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Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
So there was a version of red-baiting going on by the pro-privatization crowd.
—John Surico, Curbed, 18 Feb. 2025
Four years later, the Bronx Democratic machine set out to vanquish Gerena-Valentin by gerrymandering his apartment out of the district and red-baiting him.
—Cary Goodman, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2025
Steel’s campaign did not expand on the red-baiting accusations, but pointed to a previous letter to Tran that condemned his accusations that Steel wasn’t a refugee and didn’t flee communism.
—Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 27 Nov. 2024
Jurado won despite De León — a former political giant whose reputation went under like the Titanic after his role in the 2022 City Hall audio leak scandal — and his acolytes running a red-baiting campaign against his opponent straight outta 1934.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Still, the whitewashing of Reagan’s red-baiting remains the movie’s defining sin, and a testament to how any sense of portraiture is swamped by the petty desire to win a one-sided debate.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2024
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“Red-bait.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/red-bait. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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