Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the political left or its ideology.
- adjective Believing in or supporting tenets of the political left.
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- adjective politics supporting political reform to make society more
egalitarian ,secular , and/ordemocratic
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- adjective believing in or supporting tenets of the political left
Etymologies
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Examples
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He said Paul's information was based on Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government, which he called a "left-wing organization."
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Referring to the economists' letter warning about his policy, the Chancellor said: You can always assemble a group of what the BBC themselves called left-wing academics to criticise what we are doing.
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LONDON—Clifford Odets 1906-63 was a Russian-Jewish American writer best known as a left-wing playwright, but most familiar to posterity for the screenplay of "Sweet Smell of Success."
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I am known as a left-wing sympathizer and would be proud if you were.
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I am known as a left-wing sympathizer and would be proud if you were.
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On President Clinton’s so-called left-wing politics: “I find my blood pressure rising when Clinton’s cultural shock troops participate in homosexual-rights fund raisers but boycott gun-rights fund raisers—and then claim it is time to place homosexual men in tents with Boy Scouts and suggest that sperm donor babies born into lesbian relationships are somehow better served.”
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On President Clinton’s so-called left-wing politics: “I find my blood pressure rising when Clinton’s cultural shock troops participate in homosexual-rights fund raisers but boycott gun-rights fund raisers—and then claim it is time to place homosexual men in tents with Boy Scouts and suggest that sperm donor babies born into lesbian relationships are somehow better served.”
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Indeed, one of the greatest champions of black civil rights during the 1930s and 1940s was Vito Marcantonio, the left-wing New York congressman whose East Harlem district contained large numbers of both Italians and African Americans.
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Though many labor leaders were radical anticapitalists, only a tiny fraction of the rank and file was associated with a left-wing organization.
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It's left-wing Westerners, not Arabs, who obsess over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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