right-minded

Example Sentences

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Mao after 1949 has been thoroughly reassessed by historians and is now regarded as a monster by most right-minded people; but views of early Mao—from 1921 until 1949—remain stubbornly rose-tinted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Added another, “The world of right-minded musicians is depending on you. No pressure.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2020

These are tiny firecrackers designed to spark empathy, to make any right-minded person sign up to wage Taylor’s battles right alongside her.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2019

Most of what it kept for itself was terrain that no right-minded settler wanted—including those millions of acres which so daunted the Powell expedition.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2018

He was no fool and it was, he could not help feeling, extremely odd that any right-minded rabbit should choose to walk into Efrafa of his own accord.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams