Meaning of loony lefty | Babel Free

Definitions

A member of the loony left.

derogatory, informal

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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