noun
definition
A person who holds views associated with the political left.
synonyms
adjective
definition
Of or pertaining to the political left.
Examples of leftist in a Sentence
There were a few speeches from the liberal left present, but it was the usual leftist drivel.
In particular, it traces the emergence of a strategy of mobilization, which was closely associated with leftist trends within Bolshevism.
He initiated informal contacts with leftist guerrillas in neighboring Colombia.
The left wants Brown to be like that because it thinks that Tony Blair was not leftist enough.
The point was made by no less a person that Adair Turner no leftist he!
The leftist elite obviously fears an armed citizenry, which is, of course, the sole barrier to tyranny.