communists

NOUN

card-carrying communist

Synonyms

STRONG

Bolshevik Bolshevist Commie Maoist Marxist Stalinist Trotskyite apparatchik comrade pinko red socialist sympathizer

WEAK

C.P. member Castroite Leninist Party member Viet Cong com-symp fellow traveler member of the Communist Party

Antonyms

WEAK

capitalist conservative

Example Sentences

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In a new Cabinet of 21, there are now eleven noncommunists.

From Time Magazine Archive

He agreed to take noncommunists into his government.

From Time Magazine Archive

Germany could afford such a housecleaning because it has skilled noncommunists from the former West Germany to fill critical jobs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other regiments, composed of patriots but noncommunists, are less spirited; other regiments composed of men who have entered the army for the slightly higher bread ration are distinctly untrustworthy.

From The Bullitt Mission to Russia by Bullitt, William C. (William Christian)