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lefteous en · ADJ

Etymology

From left + -eous, modelled after righteous.

Meanings

1. (rare) Pertaining to the left (all senses: left-side, political left, etc.)
   • On the lefteous side of the boulevard, the throne ships of the six prominent sons of Shätäniel docked atop navvi-blue mounts featuring sapphire-clad seats, in order of descending age: […] 2010, James Hansen, Alien Covenant: Genesis I, page 63:
   • National Security Goon Plenitya Rice as well as Defense Goon G.W.F. Hegel said the enemies of Washington D.C. should be forewarned the lefteous Democrat administration believes spiraling corporatism is democracy and will thus tolerate no resistance to homosexual liberation to force apartheid to end; beau jango unchained, que paso. 2017, Garrison Clifford Gibson, A Philosophical Approach - Theoretical, page 330:
2. (nonce-word, nonstandard) Opposing righteousness; unrighteous.
   • Are you righteous or you are 'lefteous'? Being both is power! 2014, Pedro F. Patrick, Break the Alabaster Box:
   • '[…] My zombie, my hammer: are you for us or against us, will you be righteous or will you be lefteous? Say: are you with us or without?' 2011, Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh, page 295:
   • The first is that to judge any reality by criteria known to be unreal and unrealisable is to condemn any society, to place oneself for ever in the posture of a righteous (lefteous?) oppositionist to any conceivable regime calling itself socialist. 2013, Alec Nove, The Economics of Feasible Socialism, page 14:

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