lefteous

English

Alternative forms

  • leftuous

Etymology

From left +‎ -eous, modelled after righteous.

Adjective

lefteous (comparative more lefteous, superlative most lefteous)

  1. (rare) Pertaining to the left (all senses: left-side, political left, etc.)
    • 2010, James Hansen, Alien Covenant: Genesis I, page 63:
      On the lefteous side of the boulevard, the throne ships of the six prominent sons of Shätäniel docked atop navvi-blue mounts featuring sapphire-clad seats, in order of descending age: […]
    • 2017, Garrison Clifford Gibson, A Philosophical Approach - Theoretical, page 330:
      National Security Goon Plenitya Rice as well as Defense Goon G.W.F. Hegel said the enemies of Washington D.C. should be forewarned the lefteous Democrat administration believes spiraling corporatism is democracy and will thus tolerate no resistance to homosexual liberation to force apartheid to end; beau jango unchained, que paso.
  2. (nonstandard, nonce word) Opposing righteousness; unrighteous.
    • 2011, Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh, page 295:
      ' […] My zombie, my hammer: are you for us or against us, will you be righteous or will you be lefteous? Say: are you with us or without?'
    • 2013, Alec Nove, The Economics of Feasible Socialism, page 14:
      The first is that to judge any reality by criteria known to be unreal and unrealisable is to condemn any society, to place oneself for ever in the posture of a righteous (lefteous?) oppositionist to any conceivable regime calling itself socialist.
    • 2014, Pedro F. Patrick, Break the Alabaster Box:
      Are you righteous or you are 'lefteous'? Being both is power!
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