right-thinking

Example Sentences

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“My thoughtful, introspective and well-intentioned father went through living hell,” his son, lawyer Paul Maginn, says, adding that “any right-thinking person” could see the allegation had been made up by Crossley.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2024

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

He was annoyed by the suggestion “that there’s a right-thinking world in art,” he added: “I mean, most of us get into art to get out of that world.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 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