rightwards
Britishadverb
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Kishida, who hails from Hiroshima, the first city to ever suffer an atomic bombing, was on the more dovish side of the LDP, but has since tacked rightwards.
From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 2022
Pecresse, a moderate within a conservative party that has lurched rightwards, would be France's first woman president if she wins the election.
From Reuters ● Mar. 30, 2022
The old trope is that the young begin as naive leftists then drift rightwards with age.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2018
I was clad in my military regalia, my star-strewn epaulettes sitting stiff on my shoulders, a green beret – fronted with the ensigns of Nigeria and the army – tilting rightwards on my head.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2013
He spreads his Infantry and "hundred field-pieces," in part, rightwards along the Homolka Hill; but chiefly leftwards along the Lobosch, where their nearest duty is to drive off those Pandours.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Thomas Carlyle
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