as in communist
an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
alleged that commies had infiltrated every level of the federal government
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But after touring the Eastern Bloc, their standing cratered, pilloried on the left for being government pawns, pilloried on the right for being peaceniks playing rock and roll for commies on the government’s dime.
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
The only thing more shocking is that the Texas Board of Education didn't try to insert a phrase somewhere saying that global warming was a massive hoax, perpetrated by a cabal of commie climate scientists.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2010
Thank you @elonmusk for stopping the commie who suspended me from Twitter a week before the election.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2022
Could all this tough-guy pushback be nothing more than a Vaccine Political Theater performance for a small and perpetually angry slice of Chicagoans who think any Democratic idea must be deemed a commie plot?
—Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2021
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
The only thing more shocking is that the Texas Board of Education didn't try to insert a phrase somewhere saying that global warming was a massive hoax, perpetrated by a cabal of commie climate scientists.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2010
Thank you @elonmusk for stopping the commie who suspended me from Twitter a week before the election.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2022
Could all this tough-guy pushback be nothing more than a Vaccine Political Theater performance for a small and perpetually angry slice of Chicagoans who think any Democratic idea must be deemed a commie plot?
—Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2021
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“Commie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commie. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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