Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, characteristic of, or inclined to communism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to communists or communism; according with the principles of communism: as, communistic theories; communistic arrangements.
- Communalistic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to communism or communists.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Living or having their nests in common, as certain birds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characteristic of
communism - adjective zoology Living or having their
nests in common.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or marked by communism
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Examples
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All the time. toJames SC: I lived in communistic country – and it was bad, bad.
Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies 2008
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You work for an employer you call communistic, so what does that make you?
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I think English culture is highly communistic in its zeal, if you see the "free-market" for what it is, namely a communistic fiction.
enowning enowning 2007
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Yet Universal health care is called communistic/socialism
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Yet Universal health care is called communistic/socialism
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Nothing I said could be described as communistic, and you alone have ascribed to me the title of intellectual, if only by saying I am trying to sound like one.
An Open Letter to Democrats on Jobs - Ben Shapiro - Townhall Conservative 2010
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To extend the analogy with deconstruction, différance by no means abolishes the distinctions between signs; pace one of my literary theory undergraduates who wrote about deconstruction being a "communistic" theory that reduced distinction to absolute lack of determination — just a huge vague soup of non-meaning, in which everything means nothing to an equal extent.
Hegel on Buddhism 2007
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It is absolutely fitting to characterize taxing cars for public transit as communist collectivism, and your responses furthermore underline a kind of communistic appeal for those with socioeconomic advantage to pay a greater portion into funding transportation that services those who are poorer.
Taxing The Competition: The Socialist Solution « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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Then the 'Red Scare' of the Forties and Fifties gave Republicans a prime opportunity to demonize as 'communistic' any sign of collaboration among peers.
Philip Slater: Why Individualists Are More Vulnerable to Dictatorship 2009
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And I think only an American would interpret the grotesque forces of chaos as "communistic" :
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