leftist
IPA: ɫˈɛftɪst
noun
- (politics, generally) A person who holds views associated with the political left.
- (politics, specifically) Someone who holds socialist or communist-leaning economic views, usually alongside progressive social views; an anticapitalist.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the political left.
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Examples of "leftist" in Sentences
- Criticism of leftist antisemitism.
- Derrida is no friend to doctrinaire leftists either.
- The leaders of the rebels were politically leftists.
- Foucault, for instance, was a leftist and a liberal.
- The usual leftist tree is a height biased leftist tree.
- That is part and parcel of the leftist view of the conflict.
- It was a leading periodical of the leftist Polish intelligentsia.
- It was a scathing critique of the leftist establishment of the era.
- As an administrator, he was known as an incorruptible leftist idealist.
- It's ironic that the most leftist of archaeologists are the most fervent.
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