leftist
noun
a member of the political Left or a person sympathetic to its views.
leftists
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pluralof leftist.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But he has also deplored that "a young person's future can be shattered just because they don't have the right connections, the right name or the right skin colour," which could attract leftists.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
In that very funny tract, Rosten addressed young baby boom radicals: leftists who had lost faith in America because of the war in Vietnam and reactionaries who wanted to ban hippies from college campuses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
According to Mark Bray, a professor of history at Rutgers University, the term was picked up across Europe in the 1980s and ’90s and adopted by a broad swath of leftists, anarchists and anti-authoritarian socialists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
He assigned his student a scholarly monograph, “Alienation: Marx’s Conception of Man in a Capitalist Society,” to begin his long education in how leftists think.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
Driving out the Turks to gain national independence in 1878 is remembered, as is the abortive uprising of the leftists against the government in September 1923.
From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut
