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loony left

loony left noun: left-wing politicians or activists whose policies or ideas are considered to be ridiculous or too politically correct.

Noun

loony left

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, derogatory) Left-wing politicians or activists whose policies or ideas are considered to be ridiculous or too politically correct.
    • Tories Play Loony Left Card1986: Headline in The Guardian, 18 Nov 1986
    • The Earl of Halsbury ([Hansard] 1986 p310) spoke of how he had been ‘warned that the loony left is hardening up the lesbian camp and that they are becoming increasingly aggressive'.1988, Michael Urben, Biography and Education

Examples of loony left in a sentence

  • They led with TROUBLESOME TOT over another piece about LESBIAN LOONY LEFT IN RIOTS.1989: Fred Sedgwick, Here Comes the Assembly Man: A Year in the Life of a Primary School (referring to an event in 1988)
  • They claimed that the London Boroughs Grant Scheme should be eliminated so that ‘public money' would no longer be spent on ‘"loony left" projects such as black lesbian groups'.1992: Kenneth (EDT) Plummer, Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences, referring to "leaflets distributed by the...
  • The republican resolution was an example of the influence of the 'loony left' in the Labor Party.1996: Mark McKenna, The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788-1996 (quoting Dr John Hewson, Leader of the...
  • [Political correctness] flourished for a while in what became known as ‘loony left' local authorities where public policies passionately favoured minority needs, the dubious as well as the deserving.1996, Understanding Journalism, John Wilson:

Questions about loony left

What does loony left mean?
Loony left means left-wing politicians or activists whose policies or ideas are considered to be ridiculous or too politically correct.
How do you use loony left in a sentence?
They led with TROUBLESOME TOT over another piece about LESBIAN LOONY LEFT IN RIOTS.
What part of speech is loony left?
Loony left is a noun.

Words near loony left in the dictionary

  1. loony
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  3. loony bins
  4. loony dooker
  5. loony dookers
  6. loony left
  7. loony leftie
  8. loony lefties
  9. loony lefty
  10. loony toon
  11. loony toons

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