right
- fair, just adj.
- accurate, precise adj.
- appropriate, fitting adj.
- sane, healthy adj.
- conservative politically adj.
- opposite of left adj.
- accurately, precisely adv.
- appropriately, suitably adv.
- fairly, justly adv.
- beneficially adv.
- directly, without delay adv.
- privilege n.
- justice, morality n.
- fix, correct v.
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Ruth says the choir came at the right time.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Since June the tiny west African nation has been hobbled by prolonged blackouts, which have reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, right at the peak of the hot season.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Raising your hand for middle management right now feels like volunteering to be laid off the next time your employer decides to become more “nimble.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
“My hope is simply that we do right by her story, her music and the people who love her, so that this evening feels like the tribute my friend deserves.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
As it turns out, both groups are slightly right but mostly wrong.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, which found the killing of 13 civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland by British soldiers was "unjustified", took 12 years to complete and cost more than £190m.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The suit also called for the protection of due process and access to counsel rights for people in immigration detention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
It would have also benefited from parts of the EU budget, but without full voting rights.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
It passed civil rights acts that guaranteed birthright citizenship and enacted Reconstruction Acts that secured black suffrage in the South.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
Women were actively fighting for their rights during that era too.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
The time has never been righter, it seems to me.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
Cat burglar, con artist, master of disguise, Lupin is also a brilliant detective and righter of wrongs.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2021
“As a solver of mysteries and a righter of historical wrongs, I live for this stuff,” Zax said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
Nevertheless, we still tend to fixate on the things they got right, often with fingers crossed, dreaming that their thoughts might help us make the world righter still.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
"Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter."
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
"I don't fancy her chances much either way," said everyone else, and they were probably the rightest of all.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
Ali meanwhile had managed the rightest kind of job as an assistant to Fashion Photographer Melvin Sokolsky.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's got pictorial dazzle and an uncommon generosity of spirit, and it ends with the sweetest, rightest shot of the movie year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now will I tell you the rightest way and the shortest to Jerusalem.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
And I may say that the Westcote Cemetery Association is one of the rightest and tightest little corporations in existence.
From Solander's Radio Tomb by Ellis Parker Butler
He got his team very badly wrong to begin with, but he righted the wrongs thereafter.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
He righted the ship with a birdie at the par-five 13th, where he missed the green but chipped to three feet from dense rough well below the green.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
“It’s upside down. A lot of people say that it was actually upside down before, and we just righted it,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
Doesn’t such an injustice need to be righted as soon as possible?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
Wolf righted himself with a shake and leapt for the pouch, catching it in mid-air, but landing perilously close to the edge of the ravine.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
“The quarter prior revealed some success in righting the ship in the U.S., but significantly worse performance in China, which is becoming a much smaller part of the business,” she added.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Smith added that the deal would make "real progress" towards righting the "historic wrong" of pay erosion for staff over the past two decades.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
From this point of view, Syria’s revolution might be seen as the righting of a long historic anomaly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
We’re talking about Derpy Tiger, an oversized blue cat with glowing yellow eyes, a snaggletooth grin and a penchant for righting overturned vessels.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2025
However,” Dallben went on, “these things have a way of righting themselves. Oh, before I forget...”
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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