commie

noun

com·​mie ˈkä-mē How to pronounce commie (audio)
variants often Commie
Synonyms of commienext
: communist

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Examples of commie in a Sentence

alleged that commies had infiltrated every level of the federal government
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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 There is the monolithic enemy — commies from North Vietnam, sneak attackers from Imperial Japan, tech spies from China. — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 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 At other times, he’s called to action as a respected adventurer to investigate missing persons and MacGuffins, which generally leads to a series of globe-spanning scraps with members Axis Powers (sometimes cultists and commies too). — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for commie

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Etymology

by shortening & alteration

First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of commie was in 1924

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“Commie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commie. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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