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loony lefty en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, informal) A member of the loony left.
    • 2004, T D Allman, Rogue State http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=F7WEyxRnR78C&pg=PA381&lpg=PA381&sig=n1E2zC3gavDywc644o_fwI8WRIg This put the “conservative” Cheney in the same camp as looney lefties like former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, whose opposition to the Iraq sanctions derived from their own peculiar “good versus evil” take on US-Iraq relations.
    • 1998, Sylvia Bashevkin, Women on the Defensive http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=Piwck9KHrZMC&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&sig=b0cpCRQd7DcWspW8YqS5M70QWuQ We are in no way open to the charge that we are loony lefties running the organization on behalf of some fringe interests.
    • 1994, Meryl Aldridge, Making Social Work News http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=QurCxw9C7Z4C&pg=PA200&lpg=PA200&sig=paBsJGVUMjbGxZ-W7SX90U_6Bzc This is the tabloid world of snoopers, bunglers, loony lefties and little Hitlers.

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