leftist
Example Sentences
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Rodríguez is considered a canny politician who some contend is much less ideological than her leftist history implies.
From Salon
Complaints about Copland’s leftist leanings pressured Eisenhower to cancel the performance, but left inklings in Ike’s mind that the nation needed a performing arts center in Washington, D.C.
From Los Angeles Times
Four years later, he had enough arriviste chutzpah to run for state governor as the candidate for the Liberty Union Party—a leftist Vermont grouping.
Its huge white storage tanks serve as canvases for slogans evoking Chavismo, the political ideology that governed Venezuela for the past 27 years and is named after late former leftist leader Hugo Chavez.
From Barron's
Mr. Burke’s chapters on the alliance between the Palestinian groups and West German leftists such as the Red Army Faction are especially strong.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
