pinko
Americannoun
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pinkos,
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pinkoes
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a person with left-wing, but not extreme, political opinions.
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a person who leans toward communist ideology.
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of pinko
Example Sentences
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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
Richard Schiff is excellent in the small role of the American Ford executive who must come over to sort out this costly pinko mess.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 30, 2010
Two years ago, Banker Wertheim bought for his Civic Aid Foundation Oswald Garrison Villard's famed old pinko weekly, The Nation, which was editorially strong at 70 but financially feeble.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the gulf that yawns today between Wall Street and Vesey Street, where the now pinko Nation is published, was narrower in those days.
From Time Magazine Archive
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