How to Use fascist in a Sentence

fascist

1 of 2 noun
  • Fascists haven’t gone away in the world.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 13 May 2026
  • The fascists had already told many lies.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • He's called the president a fascist.
    — Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The fascists surrounded Madrid on three sides.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Shelby must deal with homegrown fascists and his own violent past in this film spinoff.
    — Jef Rouner, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2026
  • In other words, the fascists told a more riveting story.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • By making people feel deeply insecure and afraid, the fascists could pose as their saviors.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But right now Congress is being run by power-hungry fascists.
    — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • Wake the f*** up please and stop playing defense for these incompetent fascists.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The four libertines are fascists engaged in a last orgy of terror as the country slides from their control.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The department even translated a post from German that called Kirk a fascist.
    — PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Much of American media and press on this side of the Fox News darkness does not dare to call out a fascist.
    — Aleksandar Hemon, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Critics called the manifesto fascist.
    — ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Critics called the manifesto fascist.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Don't call someone who isn't an actual Nazi a Nazi, or someone who isn't a real fascist a fascist.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Which is to say, for fascists, being political means defining oneself against an enemy.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Little wonder that fascists and other miscreants feel welcome.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The threat is felt so acutely that fascists are led to take joy in cruelty against those outside this group, and others who stand to benefit from greater equality.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Jan. 2026
  • To add to the second-hand embarrassment, a gaudy amusement park proves a vital part of Homelander’s plan—after all, fascists and tyrants tend to have bad taste.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • My own nonno was a fascist, a Mussolini man, a pilot who had been shot from the sky while flying an imperial mission over Ethiopia.
    — Gioia Woods, Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Teachers Union leader Randi Weingarten smears Trump voters as fascists!
    — The Hill, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Sean Charles Dunn in August called federal officers racists and fascists and threw his subway sandwich at one federal agent.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
  • What’s striking is that Torrente is an abhorrent, fascist, Francoist, machista alcoholic yet people see him right at home in politics.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The public discussion prompted by the (dis)invitation confirmed to me that only those safe from fascism and its practices are likely to think that there might be a benefit in exchanging ideas with fascists.
    — Aleksandar Hemon, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Fascists, or those adjacent to fascism, are generally obsessed with societal decline.
    — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The lineage of her home party, Fratelli d’Italia, or Brothers of Italy, traces back to the rump of Mussolini’s fascists.
    — Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2026
  • But he gets shot twice in the final shootout against the regional Nazi liaison, British fascist John Beckett (Tim Roth).
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The film will provide an opportunity for Italians to revisit their fascist past through the unique lens of a non-Italian woman chosen by fate to briefly serve as the country’s last queen.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • The practice of fascism supersedes its ideas, which is why people affected and diminished by it are not all that interested in a marketplace of ideas in which fascists have prime purchasing power.
    — Aleksandar Hemon, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Accusing a political opponent of being a dictator—or even a fascist—is nothing new in American elections.
    — Letters To The Editor, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025

fascist

2 of 2 adjective
  • Jasper is a sexist fascist drunk on his own power.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • Nazi and fascist language was filled with hyperbole—something was the best and the greatest of all time.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Not drinking seemed to me synonymous with a hatred of pleasure, a fascist quest for purity.
    — Sarah Miller, New Yorker, 20 June 2026
  • Fascist nations are police states by definition, ruled by agents of the state who are ruthless and arbitrary.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • And amidst the momentum of reverie, there’s the line ‘Blink at the light and hope to survive,’ because daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 June 2026
  • Its tone is of a noir film, and begins with a missing persons mystery while gradually spinning out to reveal a world full of of fascist, evil mice.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
  • His fascist bona fides having been validated, Pound was given the green light to begin his radio broadcasts.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Fascist propaganda, whether in films, posters, or mass rallies, was the creation of a fantasyland in which the masses could get lost.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • That this man’s-man tough guy becomes utterly servile in the presence of a bunch of slack-casual bazillionaires is the cherry on top of the fascist sundae.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The filmmaker said the movie, about a young girl and fascist captain in 1940s Spain, remains timely.
    — ABC News, 12 May 2026
  • In the 1930s, some saw La Guardia as a socialist, others as a man far too close to fascist Italy.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Fascist propaganda in Italy did the same, with the regime’s ideas spreading through newspapers, pamphlets, and broadcast-ing.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • In telling a story about the long tail of fascist repression, Filho and star Wagner Moura cover a lot of ground.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Forbidden Notebook is a novel in the form of a diary kept in post-Fascist Rome by a conformist mother.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Obviously, the German pavilion is a fascist building.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 6 May 2026
  • But different rules may apply to countries such as Austria, France, and Italy, where the right-wing fringe has explicit fascist roots.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
  • That’s why Fehér calls Orbán’s politics not illiberal, the word used by the prime minister, but post-fascist.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The more macho wholesome image, Robert Rundo thinks, gives young men permission to adopt his fascist philosophy.
    — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 3 May 2026
  • Censorship, exclusion and mass misinformation campaigns are not new and have always been fascist tactics.
    — Megan Thiele Strong, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The fascist dictator was executed in Italy in 1945.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The Italian team performed fascist salutes at its matches, including in the final against Czechoslovakia.
    — Andrew Pereira, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • But Ginny had arrived determined to cover both Nationalist and fascist Spain.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
  • As prime minister, Chamberlain faced the reality of a brutal fascist enemy in Hitler.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2026
  • With a troubled recent history, with all the fascist dictatorships and communism and chaos after 1990.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • However, the Make America Great Again movement clearly belongs to the same fascist lineage.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The West is betraying 'liberal values' for a genocidal fascist foreign government.
    — Anhelina Shamlii, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • Fascist propaganda works by distraction and deception.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Was this a radical, unpredictable metamorphosis, or was a fascist tendency latent in the DNA of the party?
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Not the fascist regime’s Yankee Doodle Dummy version of American history, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing, but the truth.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Infiniti's Agnes MacKenzie is the daughter of a Commander, one of the elite male architects of the fascist republic.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026

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