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Definition of lefty in English: lefty(also leftie) nounPlural lefties ˈlɛftiˈlɛfti informal 1British A person with left-wing political views. even lefties are now saying that people want to buy their own homes as modifier lefty trades unionists Example sentencesExamples - Why do we as artists, lefties, politico revolutionaries, critique one another at every available opportunity?
- We've got to be more left-wing than the lefties.
- For a leftie, becoming politically aware in the 1990s - after the fall of communism - was a strange experience.
- But it functions as a summation of lefty gripes about life in these United States.
- But I am programmed as a leftie to try to find the root causes of their anger.
- I'm aware that I'm about to receive a pile of comments going on about me being a stupid leftie student.
- You really have to watch out for those radical lefties, don't you?
- As Josh points out, there's a big difference - both then and now - between liberal Democrats and extreme lefties.
- She's the sort of lefty intellectual whom Nader would want to pull in.
- Speakers at the lefty march condemned this ‘opportunism’ and urged us not to tolerate the misuse of peace slogans by fascists.
- Is she saying she thinks more lefty kids think voting is useless?
- If anything, the ads worked to take votes from Nader (which, as Stephanie Luce points out, alienated some lefty female voters).
- It's actually a good opportunity to compare the behavior of lefty and righty commenters.
- Ken Livingstone said last week that we have to stand by Liz Jackson, our Labour candidate, because she is such a good leftie.
- Although Congress is hardly the place to find lots of radical lefties, it's also true that there are very few genuinely conservative Democrats left.
- Beyond the standard lefty refrains, most of the discourse was about how they felt marginalized within the power structure of the political science discipline.
- Of course, he has views on social issues that, to a Western leftie, are (at best) distasteful.
- He had been a student lefty in Chile when Pinochet's military coup was launched on that fateful 11 September in 1973.
- At Victoria University, there were four young lefties taking Political Science.
- The only answer that I can conclude is that they did not trust the lefty activists that they themselves put into that court.
Synonyms left-wing, fabian, syndicalist, utopian socialist left-winger, fabian, syndicalist, utopian socialist 2North American A left-handed person. 左撇子 many older people classified as right-handers were born lefties as modifier a lefty pitcher Example sentencesExamples - For righthanders, the ball is nested in the right palm, supported strongly by the left hand, with the opposite true for lefties.
- Hundley has good power, and his return to righthanded hitting late last year should keep him in the lineup against both lefties and righthanders.
- Hitting lower also gives him one or two innings to watch how pitchers attack other lefties, such as Edmonds and Lankford.
- While his changeup works wonders against right-handers, lefties have an easier time picking it up.
- From 1915-17 he won 65 games, more than any other lefty.
- With runners on second and third, Showalter summoned lefty Brian Shouse from the bullpen and let him pitch.
- He bowled the following season left-handed and even bowled three regionals as a lefty, but had no luck.
- One of the concerns going into the season was how the club would fare against lefties, because the team had six lefthanded hitters in its lineup.
- I have proven myself as one of the top lefties around, I am still a quality pitcher.
- Say you're looking for a starting pitcher who's tough on lefties.
- Two pitchers that have flown up prospect charts are lefties Macay McBride and Dan Meyer.
- The team plans to fill its other main need, a left-handed reliever, by giving non-roster invitations to a few lefties.
- Stairs will start against righthanded pitchers, Ochoa against most lefties.
- Chris Hammond, a soon-to-be 37-year-old lefty who pitched for the Braves last season, accepted the deal.
- I was accustomed to lefties who mostly bowled from the left-hand corner and stayed there.
- So it made sense to Casey to load up with right-handers when the lefties were pitching, and vice versa.
- Compare that with Warren Spahn, another lefty, and something of a contemporary, who won 20 or more games 13 times and won 23 games at the age of 42.
- Each manager apparently hoped to keep his opponent guessing as to whether he was starting a lefty or a right-hander.
- Wells is a big-game pitcher who gives the rotation a needed lefty.
- Starting in the 4th inning he pitches lefthanded whenever Baltimore's lefty hitters are at bat.
Definition of lefty in US English: lefty(also leftie) nounˈleftēˈlɛfti informal 1North American A left-handed person. 左撇子 Example sentencesExamples - One of the concerns going into the season was how the club would fare against lefties, because the team had six lefthanded hitters in its lineup.
- Chris Hammond, a soon-to-be 37-year-old lefty who pitched for the Braves last season, accepted the deal.
- Starting in the 4th inning he pitches lefthanded whenever Baltimore's lefty hitters are at bat.
- Hundley has good power, and his return to righthanded hitting late last year should keep him in the lineup against both lefties and righthanders.
- The team plans to fill its other main need, a left-handed reliever, by giving non-roster invitations to a few lefties.
- He bowled the following season left-handed and even bowled three regionals as a lefty, but had no luck.
- While his changeup works wonders against right-handers, lefties have an easier time picking it up.
- Say you're looking for a starting pitcher who's tough on lefties.
- Two pitchers that have flown up prospect charts are lefties Macay McBride and Dan Meyer.
- From 1915-17 he won 65 games, more than any other lefty.
- Hitting lower also gives him one or two innings to watch how pitchers attack other lefties, such as Edmonds and Lankford.
- So it made sense to Casey to load up with right-handers when the lefties were pitching, and vice versa.
- Compare that with Warren Spahn, another lefty, and something of a contemporary, who won 20 or more games 13 times and won 23 games at the age of 42.
- Wells is a big-game pitcher who gives the rotation a needed lefty.
- I have proven myself as one of the top lefties around, I am still a quality pitcher.
- Each manager apparently hoped to keep his opponent guessing as to whether he was starting a lefty or a right-hander.
- With runners on second and third, Showalter summoned lefty Brian Shouse from the bullpen and let him pitch.
- For righthanders, the ball is nested in the right palm, supported strongly by the left hand, with the opposite true for lefties.
- Stairs will start against righthanded pitchers, Ochoa against most lefties.
- I was accustomed to lefties who mostly bowled from the left-hand corner and stayed there.
2A leftist. Example sentencesExamples - I'm not automatically going to want to be someone's best friend just because they're the only overt lefty on a TV show.
- The interview excerpts have some interesting assertions from an old 60s lefty.
- Kleiman goes on to say some very insightful stuff about gun control that every lefty should read.
- This piece is interesting in the way it shows another lefty having doubts about the Fascist Left.
- This isn't particularly clever, but it is an interesting guide to who's who on the right, as perceived by this particular lefty.
- A little humility is called for here - even for a judgmental old lefty like me.
- If any lefty that stumbles across this can provide such a definition, please attempt to do so in the comments.
Synonyms left-wing, fabian, syndicalist, utopian socialist left-winger, fabian, syndicalist, utopian socialist
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