leftward

[left-werd]

adverb

1. Also leftwards. toward or on the left. leave. left.

adjective

1. situated on the left. leave. left.

2. directed toward the left. leave. left.

leftward

/ ˈlɛftwəd /

adjective

1. on or towards the left

adverb

1. a variant of leftwards

Other Word Forms

• leftwardly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of leftward¹

First recorded in 1475–85; left ¹ + -ward

Example Sentences

Platner gained a national profile following a buzzy campaign video accentuating his working-class bona fides, clearly staking out a position on the party’s leftward flank.

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What it means is that U.S. investors were tired of Glass Lewis’s bullying leftward tilt in its proxy recommendations.

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ADF had a strategy to take the culture wars to companies, where they had seen a leftward tilt in values.

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Indeed, to most Americans in the leftward and more metropolitan half of the population, all of this looked like a process of irreversible and irresistible change.

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For the uninitiated, Mullen is synonymous with the archetype of embittered leftward men who’ve been adrift ever since Bernie Sanders failed to topple the status quo.

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