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US
/ˈɫɛftɪst/
]
[ UK /lˈɛftɪst/ ]
[ UK /lˈɛftɪst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- believing in or supporting tenets of the political left
NOUN
- a person who belongs to the political left
How To Use leftist In A Sentence
- Reut said there is a "coalescence" between "two parallel processes" - the so-called delegitimization forces, like NGOs and leftist organizations, and the militant Islamist efforts led by such groups as Hamas and Hezbollah. Window Into Palestine
- Willis also skips over the secular and leftist politics that led Catholic ethnics and working-class voters to take their distance from liberalism and the Democratic Party in 1972.
- Guys (meaning "gunnies" of both genders) There is little use in argueing the FACTS with Paul and other anti-freedom zealots ... because the simple FACT of the matter is, when it comes to leftist liberal nut jobs they NEVER let them pesky little FACTS get in the way of 1) Their "Feelings" 2) a good tale. A Hit From The Supremes
- Leftists thrive on blind emotion and stoking that emotion is not helpful.
- In 1947, many leftist filmmakers were treated as outlaws, and it's not surprising that they made some of their best films from the point of view of criminals.
- Since reform began in the early 1980s, Chinese politics has been primarily a battle between two factions: reformists and leftists.
- So this is what we are up against in the fight to preserve and vivify the life of the mind in the university-not a handful of old elitists, as leftist academics charge, but a mob of middle-aged managers.
- To NOT show your proclivities is the act of a cowering child, or a leftist, who doesn’t want to be held responsible later for taking a stand of any sort. Think Progress » New Bush bill would legalize torture.
- As a result, the postmodern leftist lives in a kind of hermetically sealed ignorance that they call "education" or "sophistication. One Cosmos
- And, because we are realistic, right-thinking leftists, we understand that interspecies carnivorism is celebrated among Insect-Canadians, adding another community of insect villagers. Summer of the Ants