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
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
How can an apothecary be evil-tempered but right-thinking?
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
