right-thinking
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of right-thinking
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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An abomination in the eyes of the law, and of all right-thinking citizens!
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023
Real was beaten within 10 minutes: two goals down, ruthlessly exposed, looking suddenly like the expensive collection of gifted but ill-matched individuals that all right-thinking people dismissed them as about four Champions League titles ago.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
They are not led astray by the artist's delusions of grandeur, alienating a virtuous, right-thinking public.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
The judge said the motive that underpinned their actions that evening would be regarded by all right-thinking people as both "perverse and abhorrent."
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2021
I told Granny that I planned to make some money by selling papers and she agreed, thinking that at last I was becoming a serious, right-thinking boy.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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