left-wing
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- adjective
- /lɛft-wɪŋ/
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- Mr. Cross is a journalist with good access to left-wing circles down here... and he's dug up some interesting information about your son.
- a left-wing party
- left-wing views
- left-wing politicians
Just comedy actually pretends to be left wing, but it isn't really.
- Just comedy actually pretends to be left wing, but it isn't really.
- If you're old and left wing, you don't have a brain.
- No, that would be the case if I was very left wing or remotely left wing for sure.
- Even the right wing media is weirdly left wing.
- But that's that's a great sign, you know, and I think we we need more people who they we don't know to run for office on more left wing platforms.
- Z, you've got boys turning more right wing and girls turning much, much more left wing.
- We have people in the House of Representatives that are Marxist, that are far left wing radicals that despise this country.
- And then I put a satire of the left wing feminist activists who are on the Internet trying to take those girl buses down.
- And General Kelly has clearly been drinking from the left wing kool-aid for a few years now since he was fired by Trump.
- I believe he would have been approached by a left wing Castro group, people claiming, as I said before, to be left wing.
- I was quite sort of a left wing, you know, young whippersnapper at that point.
- It's it's, yeah, it's it's an incredible kind of litany of all of the kind of left wing fats that were incredibly violent.
Examples
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Many of the professors and graduate students are adherents of varying left-wing views.
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John was far more socially and politically conservative than his left-wing son.
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I always thought of free speech as a, as a left wing liberal ideal.
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My assumption is that it was connected to his, left-wing political activities.
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In fact, Solidarity continued to oppose almost all major policy initiatives of the left-wing coalition.
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For some time already, the left-wing opposition has campaigned by opposing the government's economic measures.
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It's a left-wing newspaper.
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I think that Norman Finkelstein and I, you know, he's a very left wing, I think socialists type.
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As bread lines and unemployment rolls get longer and longer, violence is erupting around the nation, and left-wing politicians are gaining strength.
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Many voters support left-wing policies that promote social equality and workers' rights.
Synonyms
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4.4
Having political views that support social change and people's freedoms
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4.2
Supporting social equality and change to help more people
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4.4
Supporting more social equality and government help in the economy
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Being slightly left in politics and supporting some social change
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6.1
Supporting social equality and more government help, but not strongly
To support individual freedom and rights protected by law
Antonyms
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4.9
Having conservative political views that support lower taxes and stricter immigration rules
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Etymology
Left-wing comes from the way people sat in old political meetings: those who wanted 'change' sat on the left side, the wing of the room meaning 'side'. So a left-wing person or idea supports progress, reform, and more equality.