pinko

Example Sentences

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Mr. Navasky is the former editor and publisher of The Nation, the venerable journal of the left that Calvin Trillin has warmly referred to as “a pinko magazine printed on very cheap paper.”

From New York Times • May 23, 2013

It was left to Baden-Powell to shake off these pinko associations, give the movement a bit of military backbone, and extend the hand of international friendship to the Hitler Youth Movement.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2011

Richard Schiff is excellent in the small role of the American Ford executive who must come over to sort out this costly pinko mess.

From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2010

Founder Selden Rodman, was, at 23, a poet who detested the word pinko and who, at Yale, edited a radical undergraduate magazine.

From Time Magazine Archive

All this is less likely to offend any demographic than pinko talk about camels and needles.

From Time Magazine Archive