(n.) A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet it is liberal Muslims such as Sadiq Khan who are best placed to challenge extremist views within their own communities.
(2) Greek police have said the 45-year old man arrested over the attack has admitted being a member of the extremist Golden Dawn Party.
(3) Associating themselves with the freedom demonstrations has given Pegida protests an air of moral respectability even though there are hundreds of rightwing extremists in their midst, as well as established groups of hooligans who are known to the police, according to Germany’s federal office for the protection of the constitution.
(4) However, extremist groups have been based in Karachi for many decades.
(5) A splinter group of the nationalist National Liberation Front of Corsica had made a statement warning extremists that any attack on the island would trigger “a determined response, without any qualms”.
(6) He believes there are several factors that could aggravate extremists, other than the videos.
(7) The man, born in 1985, had a criminal record and had been flagged as an extremist as early as 2010, the prosecutor said.
(8) My views almost six years ago would be considered by the Australian government as extreme and myself an Islamic extremist, although I was still an Atheist, a little confusing I know,” he wrote.
(9) And Islamist extremists desecrated shrines built by Sufi Muslims and the graves of British soldiers.
(10) However, Comey said at a news conference Wednesday that extremist language traced by the FBI were not publicly visible social media posts.
(11) In April 2009, he launched the first concerted offensive against the extremists, routing them in the Swat valley in the north-west, before starting the continuing operations in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal area, which runs along the Afghan border.
(12) At the State Department, officials said the US is pressuring Qatar and Turkey to help cut off flows of financing and foreign fighters to Isis, even as they cautioned that they did not see evidence of either government supporting the extremist group officially.
(13) The briefing points, obtained by the AP, added that "there are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations" but did not mention eyewitness accounts that blamed militants alone.
(14) Bridging the Muslim-Christian divide and climate issues are major themes of the trip that also takes him to Uganda, which like Kenya has been a victim of extremist attacks, and the Central African Republic, a nation riven by sectarian conflict.
(15) The rightwing extremist who confessed to the mass killings in Norway boasted in court on Monday that there were two more cells from his terror network still at large, prompting an international investigation for collaborators.
(16) The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, has backed Australia’s existing commitment to humanitarian air drops in northern Iraq, describing Isis as a “fundamentalist, extremist organisation whose violence and acts of genocide need to be called for what they are”.
(17) Hotels are an easy option, often patronised by individuals who can be depicted as “unbelievers”, or representatives of the so-called Crusader-Zionist alliance so hated by the extremists, and usually poorly protected too.
(18) The country opened eight crossing points along a 20-mile (32km) stretch from Akcakale to Mursitpinar, allowing about 45,000 Kurds to escape from the Islamist extremists, the deputy prime minister, Numan Kurtulmus, said on Saturday.
(19) Last month, the Greek parliament, the scene of often raucous debate since the election of the extremists in June 2012, voted to cut off annual state funds of around €800,000 (£660,000) to which the party would have been entitled as of this year.
(20) The 18-year-old man lives in the Grangetown area of the Welsh capital, close to the inner-city areas where two young men who featured in an extremist recruitment video are from.
Wingnut
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Or, as Wingnut put it rather succinctly: "GROW SOME BALLS.
(2) A DHS memo about right-wing extremism would set off the wingnut skree machine , and there would also be extensive Republican complaints about “border security” – not to mention howls of “Big Sis” .
(3) She welcomed “Pinktober” on Twitter with her signature mix of righteous outrage and poignant sarcasm: Xeni Jardin (@xeni) Oh, and on top of vital government services being held hostage by wingnuts it's FUCKING PINKTOBER October 1, 2013 Xeni Jardin (@xeni) I love most that we're able to take a horrible, disfiguring, lethal disease and turn it into shopping.
(4) One of the most exciting things in Congress is the right and the left – what I call the ‘wingnut coalition’ – is working together to improve justice in America,” said Labrador.
(5) (It’s vital to remember, too, that being able to tell my abortion story without feeling unsupported and unsafe – beyond the general unease of knowing my country is full of heavily armed, anti-intellectual GOP wingnuts – is a privilege.
(6) Not just for what it says but because what is being said sounds like it should come out of the mouth of a wingnut Republican senator in the US, not a pair of gay fashion designers in Milan.
(7) I’m depressed to think that if these wingnuts form a coalition I, as a comedian, will have to know the names of some real morons.
(8) Our politicos seem to still believe that the only people who vote in our state are white wingnuts and religious zealots who spread hate rather than love of their neighbors.