pinko

Example Sentences

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It’s a curious sentiment for her to feel like she should be doing more, considering her activist history eclipses pretty much the entirety of Hollywood’s, but it’s a genuinely heart-warming notion from our pinko grandmother.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2019

Mr. Navasky is the former editor and publisher of The Nation, the venerable journal of the left that Calvin Trillin has warmly referred to as “a pinko magazine printed on very cheap paper.”

From New York Times • May 23, 2013

It was left to Baden-Powell to shake off these pinko associations, give the movement a bit of military backbone, and extend the hand of international friendship to the Hitler Youth Movement.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2011

Founder Selden Rodman, was, at 23, a poet who detested the word pinko and who, at Yale, edited a radical undergraduate magazine.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are far different from the old-line shellback malcontents who were duck soup for Curran's earlier pinko type of organizing, and they are not obliged to hold union cards.

From Time Magazine Archive