right-thinking
Example Sentences
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Although spread out and isolated from each other, the Wilcoxes share a bubble of self-regard; they’re right-thinking, sanctimonious Manhattanites who drop Harvard and Yale and “genius” in casual conversation.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 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 believe an artist's democratic duty is to please the virtuous, right-thinking public, for which he or she will be duly and amply rewarded.
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
Indeed, under normal circumstances, a rule against stealing would be one that all right-thinking people ought to follow.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
