right-thinking
Americanadjective
adjective
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of right-thinking
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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He would recognize better than anyone the ethos that controls his former workplace: “At any given moment,” he once wrote, “there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.”
"There can be no justification for the vile abuse against them, or the attempted assaults and attacks on members of the force that will shock all right-thinking people," he said.
From BBC
It was obvious to all right-thinking people that “we” had won the culture war, despite the occasional flare-up of distressing rear-guard skirmishes.
From Salon
Prosecutor Richard Wright KC said it had been a "moronic mission" and the men had thought it was "just a tree", while all right-thinking people had been angered and saddened by the "arboreal equivalent of mindless thuggery".
From BBC
"From Felixstowe to Falkirk and from Bishop Auckland to Barnstable, up and down this country and across the world, the reaction of all right-thinking people to the senseless felling of the Sycamore Gap tree has been one of sadness and anger," Mr Wright said.
From BBC
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